ya know the cool thing about open source? if you want a feature - you
can write it yourself! the core team has said push('again').join(' and
') that this is not a feature they will add which probably means it
probably won't be done.but, hey, this has become a reddit post - stupidest comment generates the most response. congrats! On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 10:07, Bradley Meck <[email protected]> wrote: > I would take a look at SilkJS. > > > On Sunday, April 1, 2012 9:20:01 PM UTC-5, Olivier Lalonde wrote: >> >> I'm sorry if this has been discussed before, but I couldn't find anything. >> This a modest proposal to introduce sync APIs in Node.js >> >> A lot of people would like to use Javascript for their web backend, but >> don't want to program in an async style (I believe those reasons have >> already been discussed at length). >> >> As it stands right now, it is practically impossible to program in Node.js >> in a sync style, since most core modules and native extensions only provide >> an async interface. >> >> I believe there would be an easy way to change the status quo without >> impacting developers who chose to adhere to a strict async style. The >> solution I propose is simply a pattern for writing I/O APIs: every I/O call >> should be async unless no call back is supplied, in which case the I/O call >> should be sync and use return / throw statements instead of calling a >> callback. >> >> There is probably a flaw in my reasoning since I'm probably not the first >> one to come up with this pattern. That being said, I think it would be an >> elegant way to make both async/sync fans happy while keeping all the backend >> JS community focused on one project rather than fragmenting the community in >> multiple CommonJS server implementations. >> >> Thoughts? > > -- > 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
