On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Bruno Jouhier <[email protected]> wrote: > I posted a follow-up on my blog: > http://bjouhier.wordpress.com/2012/04/14/node-js-awesome-runtime-and-new-age-javascript-gospel/
Bruno, we are evangelizing callbacks because this is the only it can possibly work in JavaScript. You can add a preprocessing step (which is apparently what streamline is doing) - we will not do that. You can add some crazy longjmp in your extension and juggle executions stacks and try to forget how much memory they are or fight with stack over flows - we will not do that. JavaScript has a run-to-completion model which we do not seek to circumvent. Node is JavaScript - even more than that - Node is V8 JavaScript. If V8 adds generators, we will have them - if not then not. One of the key reasons Node is successful (unlike all of other server-side JS systems) is because it actually uses JavaScript and not some JavaScript-like language. I'm glad you like Node. As you said, it is simple and fast. It got that way by keeping things simple and fast. It will remain simple and fast by continuing to strive for those goals. This is a discussion to bring up with the EcmaScript committee. -- 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
