On 30 Jun 2011, at 18:01, Olivier Auverlot wrote: > I don't think that the buzz around NodeJS comes from these samples of code. > Yes, it's very easy to starting a project with NodeJS but the interest from > NodeJS is that this server extends the usages of Javascript wich becomes an > language useable on many platform, many OS for many usages. With Javascript, > programmers can write client code in browsers, widgets for desktop computers, > shell scripts with Rhino, mobile applications for Android or IOS, ... and > now, programmers can write server code for web applications and web services.
Both what Olivier writes above and what Norbert writes (asynch support) are correct. Still, all this buzz around JS, Ruby, Python, Java, C#, whatever, is just that, buzz. Smalltalk has been an extremely dynamic binary cross platform language for decades, absorbing all kinds of new stuff. Yes, we can and should learn from other developments, but we should not be blinded by the hype. All these other platforms have their strengths, but many serious faults as well. So far, I haven't seen much that can't be done in Smalltalk in some way. And it is so much more easy, productive, nicer, pleasant, fun to do it in Smalltalk. Sven
