Microsoft is working to port Node to Windows.
If you haven't looked node yet, it is worth a look. Very interesting stuff. I know I am very excited
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Geoffreyk
boom
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Oh noes! Another FOSS effort being tainted by 'Softies!
Interestingly, Rackspace (the employer of Beer's hero and personal lord and savior Robert Scoble) is contributing the efforts of Bert Belder for this project.
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Charles
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@cbae: Tainted? Well, if you mean tainted with more IQ, then, yeah... Come on.
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Sven Groot
Don't worry... I'm a doctor.
@Charles: I think cbae was being sarcastic.
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Charles
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@Sven Groot: Fair enough. Is there a sarcastic smiley? The Charles AI can't decipher sarcasm from words alone. (then again, I haven't updated the code in 4 years....)
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I thought the context was obvious enough.
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ScanIAm
This is an...
It was. Charles must have missed all the beer rants lately.
I'm sure Beer felt like Yoda after Alderaan went boom.
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Charles
Welcome Change
@ScanIAm: Actually, I've been monitoring the Beer posts (weird, off-topic, tangential, nonseniscal at times, mostly pointless flame induction, close to offensive at times, almost worthy of deletion)...
At any rate, this is great news for Node!
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ScanIAm
This is an...
I'm kind of confused about why node.js is even important. I'm sure I'll be dragged, kicking-and-screaming, into having to really, really learn JavaScript because it's the flavor of the month, but why do I need to write server software in a language invented for netscape marketing?
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jmzl666
Diablo
@ScanIAm:Because its cool.
Seriously though, this JavaScript hammer is starting to freak me out, I don't know if don't get this fad because I've been there and is so much pain or is because I'm getting old and don't get it.
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ScanIAm
This is an...
@jmzl666: I think what we're seeing is the merging of attention deficit disorder and attention seeking behavior amongst the "I'm a special snowflake" crowd.
It's one thing to jump on a new language or framework or design pattern when it provides some kind of advantage over what exists, but JS provides no clear advantage in any arena other than client side browser code that attempts to make the browser work like an actual client application.
Here's an idea, hipsters, learn assembly if you want to experience difficult coding environments.
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Bass
I need better writers.
Oh noes. Here comes some "special snowflake" logic.
There is many reasons you'd want to use JavaScript on the server.
- Shared business logic in the client and the server (less code duplication).
- Use of the same language on both ends also improves familiarity and productivity with that language.
Node.js specifically:
- Crazy fast JavaScript web server thanks to it's relatively unique design and Google's V8 engine.
- Fairly large community and availability of server-side libraries.
Reasons to use JavaScript specifically:
- High-level, object-oriented, dynamic language with first class support for closures (and frameworks that were designed from the ground up to take advantage of them - unlike .NET). Actually I find the way JavaScript uses closures to implement object-orientation to be quite elegant.
- Native JSON support. As in it is the f**king JavaScript Object Notation people.
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Geoffreyk
boom
This is talked about in the newest Cloud Cover
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8 minutes ago,Geoffreyk wrote
This is talked about in the newest Cloud Cover
Node.js is just another way to sell Azure.
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ZippyV
Fired Up
@CreamFilling512: Eager to see this longer list of reasons.
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PaoloM
Hypermediocrity
Namespaces? I guess it's not specific to server, but until it's implemented properly, I don't consider JavaScript to be a real programming language.
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Charles
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3 hours ago,PaoloM wrote
Namespaces? I guess it's not specific to server, but until it's implemented properly, I don't consider JavaScript to be a real programming language.
You can create namespaces in JavaScript using JavaScript. There are already implementations out there that take advantage of the fact that JavaScript functions are first class objects.
JavaScript is a programming language that can extend its capabilities using its default capabilities. It's one of the reasons it's a good compiler target language in addition to being readily transpiled(source language compiles to some extended variant of the source language...). JavaScript is unusually flexible for a general purpose language.C
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