I see (minor?) points to have a Node.js with "buit-in" sync support:
- Easy Windows support (V8 should be compiled) - Azure support - Leverage of NPM - Leverage the current ecosystem (that is, it is not needed to build an alternative ecosystem) instead of having V8, or other engines. I see such Node.js as "Ruby for Javascript" ;-) (even with similar problems like global lock in Ruby) (and with better package management, without the need of gemsets) On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Axel Kittenberger <[email protected]> wrote: > > The one question I have with such a suggestion is how much code do you > > expect to share with the node ecosystem? > > I suppose if the answer is zero, this is what I've also been looking > for! A syncronous javascript engine for little syncronous scripting > tasks. Not web-serving, not web-scale etc. Just some routine tasks to > calculate. It just doesn't exist yet. But honestly this is nothing > node.js should care about. Pulling together the V8 into a syncronous > script executer isn't hard, the V8 comes even with a prebuild demo > console. The hard part is establishing an alive ecosystem around that, > and I don't see that coming. As we know from other language, language > is one part, a sized standards library and solutions ecosystem is > another, and the second is difficult to pull off. Node.JS has an alive > ecosystem, and so far its simpler to workaround the async style for > that one, rather than trying to set up an alternative ecosystem. > > PS: I'll just pretend it isn't an April fools... > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
