Node.js

Node.js is an open-source runtime that executes JavaScript code outside the web browser.

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Node.js is an open-source JavaScript runtime first released by Ryan Dahl in 2009 and built on Google's V8 JavaScript engine. It runs on multiple operating systems and is widely used to build servers, command-line tools and developer tooling.

It uses an asynchronous, event-driven design, and its package manager, npm, gives access to a large ecosystem of libraries.

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…neer asked for an alternative, Claude suggested counting JavaScript instructions under Valgrind, a profiling tool, with Node.js running in its predictable mode.

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