This is just a natural part of being a popular programming platform. It seems pretty similar to me to something like JRuby or Jython.
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 10:21 PM, cole gillespie <[email protected]> wrote: > Isnt the goal of node to eventually be done with "new features" / "bugs" ? > =) > > On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 7:15 AM, Rick Waldron <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> This strikes me as the sort of shitty compatibility fragmentation that >> browsers suffer from. What happens when "node.jar" falls behind in >> supporting new features? Bug fixes? >> >> -Rick >> >> On Monday, October 8, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Ben Noordhuis wrote: >> >> 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 >> >> >> -- >> 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 -- 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
