Hi, David. Yes, you make very good points. I even think you (and Benoit) may be ultimately correct
I dispute that Node.js is V8. Node is not V8. Node.js is a direct link to God. When I pray to God in the JavaScript language, God moves electrons around inside my computer. He writes files to my disk, and He sends packets out my Ethernet cable. A thought experiment: Find some computer power users or sysadmins. Break them into two groups, with one task each: 1. "Install Node.js on your computer, by any means" 2. "Install V8 on your computer, by any means" Which group would self-report more success? Which group would register more frustration? That is the sort of question I hope to answer (or at least supply some data). With any luck I can falsify my theory and theology. On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:35 PM, david martin <david.mar...@lymegreen.co.uk > wrote: > On 25/01/13 11:18, Jason Smith wrote: > >> My **tentative** position is that V8 is a waste of time. We should use >> Node.js, not V8. In other words, we should not change couchjs to link >> against libv8.so instead of libmozjs.so. Instead, we should **remove** the >> couchjs binary and build a 100% compatible node version. Again, this is my >> *suspicion* but I want to explore it more. >> >> Embedding V8 is, roughly, the same work as embedding SpiderMonkey. It does >> not change much. We still depend on an obscure VM with a quirky build >> system. >> > According to Wiki > > "Node.js is a packaged compilation of Google's V8 JavaScript engine, the > libUV platform > abstraction layer, and a core library, which is itself primarily written > in JavaScript." > > "We still depend on an obscure VM ( so V8 is an obscure VM although it is > embedded in Node.js ) with a quirky build system." > > Get rid of all quirky build systems, use rebar which builds everything AND > produces an installable relocatable executable package containing Erlang VM > and V8 VM and C routines as NIF's where required for speed. > > So Node "is" V8 plus a lot more which is not required > > > -- > David Martin > > -- Iris Couch
