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While I'm not going to argue the history of if/when he left the project, my understanding is that it's fairly agreed upon that he is the creator of Node.js. If you google "node js creator", he's an embedded answer (not a search result).

The first line on Wikipedia in the nodejs history section is "Node.js was written initially by Ryan Dahl in 2009".

You can make whatever point you want, but maybe try to do it without rewriting history, or changing the agreed-upon definition of "creator".




> If you google "node js creator", he's an embedded answer (not a search result).

Embedded answers are worse than useless.

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=who%20invented%20hands


Finding a exemplar of a bad response does not make the entire category "worse than useless".


The result is relevant and the information is (presumably) correct: "Introducing hand disinfection standards"




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