Please stop, this thread is *NOT* about threads.

Let's just gossip about what Crockford says in this talk: 
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HzclYKz4yQ#t=22m30s>

P.S. @Hahn: what's a non-blocking event loop? :-P
-- 
Jorge.


On 15/09/2012, at 20:32, Mark Hahn wrote:

> @rektide, are you saying that joyent is asleep at the wheel because they are 
> stopping the community from using threads? 
> 
> The community doesn't want threads because they violate the founding 
> principle of Node, which is to use non-blocking event loops and get rid of 
> threads.
> 
> On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Ted Young <[email protected]> wrote:
> I take it no one knows what he's actually complaining about?
> 
> Ted
> 
> On Sep 15, 2012, at 10:52 AM, Nuno Job <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> This again? Oh mah gawd. :)
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> On Sep 15, 2012, at 6:18 PM, rektide <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 04:56:40PM +0200, Arnout Kazemier wrote:
>>>> "Pull request or it didn't happen"
>>> 
>>> Hi:
>>> 
>>> https://github.com/xk/node-threads-a-gogo , or preferrably some better 
>>> isolated manner of
>>> multi-threading with Transferable objects. 
>>> 
>>>> On 15 sep. 2012, at 16:45, Jorge <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HzclYKz4yQ#t=22m30s
>>>>> 
>>>>> "I would fork nodejs. Nodejs is a great thing and I would bet the company 
>>>>> on it, but I
>>>>> would not bet the company on Joyent. I see Joyent doing some stuff which 
>>>>> is amateurish,
>>>>> maybe a little chidish, so I would fork it, and, I would then give that 
>>>>> back to the community,
>>>>> and it would be industrial strength and secure and designed to operate a 
>>>>> Yahoo scale and would
>>>>> make it available for everybody for free"
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