On Sunday, January 18, 2015 at 7:11:01 PM UTC-5, Eric Forgy wrote:
> I am probably confused, but in the link, they are talking about running > Node in Nashorn and it even points to a list of Node modules they are > currently able to run. > > https://avatar-js.java.net > <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Favatar-js.java.net&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHMI3W_0OOsDI0vObGlBAH2X87e4g> > That's Oracle being tricksy. That framework uses a different JavaScript interpreter (Nashorn) built on top of a Java JVM. Supported so long as the module is 100% Javascript but it looks like it's EMCAScript 5, not 6. But modules that make use of v8 native can not be. Here's a blog from StrongLoop <http://strongloop.com/strongblog/how-to-run-node-js-on-the-jvm-with-avatar-js-and-loopback/>; those guys are trustworthy. > I was hoping node-julia could be added to the list. I guess not? > Unfortunately, it needs v8. > > By the way, as I was reading up on Nashorn, I learned that it is intended > to be more general than just "Javascript in Java". It is supposed to be an > architecture for scripting languages in general to run on JVM, i.e. an > "LLVM for JVM", which begs the question if it now starts to make sense > thinking about compiling Julia directly to bytecode for JVM? The Javascript > performance seems pretty good. I think that would be a big boost to Julia > if you're able to get Java developers on board. > I think Nashorn represents Oracle's fear of a future where most Java programmers become Javascript programmers. But for right now anyway, I don't know of an alternative to Hadoop. Would love to learn about it.
