To Kickstarter! :O On 3 Apr 2013 17:12, "Ben Noordhuis" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 10:55 PM, Tim Caswell <[email protected]> wrote: > > I would love to see luvmonkey finished. Once the core spidermonkey <-> > > libuv bindings were complete, the rest could be implemented in pure JS on > > top. Someone could clone the node.js APIs in pure JS on top of > luvmonkey. > > > > From what I know about node's development, changing engines will never > > happen unless V8 completely dies and stops working. It's a huge task to > > make node and binary node addons work with an engine other than V8. > There > > is a lot of tight coupling there. > > > > Honestly, I think the easiest path is to find some people with > motivation, > > time, and skill to complete the luvmonkey bindings and then start a > > community effort to replicate the node.js userspace in js. > > I would like to pick up luvmonkey development again. The great thing > about SpiderMonkey is that it runs on many more platforms and > architectures than V8 (notably SPARC, POWER and PA-RISC, all still big > in the enterprise.) Porting libuv to HP-UX and AIX would be something > of an undertaking but it's certainly feasible. > > The prime issue is, of course, lack of time and/or funds. > > -- > -- > 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 > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
