On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 2:21 AM, Stewart Mckinney <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm just curious as to why having Node run on top of the Java run time is > better than say, vanilla C++ compiled Node running naively. Doesn't it run > on pretty much every popular platform now, anyway?
The major ones, yes. But there are some high margin, low volume architectures like POWER and S/390 that V8 doesn't support (and hence node.js) but the JVM does. Think AIX, mainframes, etc. There has been some corporate interest in running node on such architectures but the time and money to get (and keep) it ported isn't worth it. node.jar could be a viable alternative. -- 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
