On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 7:16 PM, Jonathan Buchanan <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm at JavaOne, for my sins, and I've been attending all the sessions > related to Oracle's new JavaScript implementation in Java, called Nashorn. > > What initially caught my eye was that they're also porting the Node.js APIs, > module system etc. in a project called Node.jar. Nashorn itself is going to > be open-source, but it sounds like it's hard to get a hold of Node.jar even > if you work for Oracle, and there are no plans to open-source Node.jar, but > it could be another deployment option in the future and another way to get > at multi-threading. > > These are what I can decipher from my scribbled notes: > > https://insin-notes.readthedocs.org/en/latest/JavaOne2012/meet_nashorn_bof.html > https://insin-notes.readthedocs.org/en/latest/JavaOne2012/nashorn_node_jpa_persistence_bof.html > > They at pains to point out they hadn't looked at any other implementations > to keep the JavaScript engine "pure", but it sounds like the Node port is > trying to reuse as much of the Node JS libs as possible and Node's tests. > > Has the Node dev team been involved with or consulted about any of this > stuff?
Very interesting, thanks for posting that. And no, we've not been consulted. :-) -- 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
