Suppose you build a node clone with mozilla js engine and you can use asm.js, would that, to some extend, reduce the need of native addons?
Ps: +1 on kickstarter. El 03/04/2013 21:23, "Stephen Belanger" <[email protected]> escribió: > 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. > > > -- -- 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.
