Node.js is the software that allows you to run Javascript to create powerful server-side applications by using Google's V8 Javascript Engine. As a Node developer myself, I have always felt frustrated by seeing that Joyent, the company behind Node.s, was extremely conservative in terms of upgrading node to use the latest V8 version; the project was also struggling to get developers to actually contribute to code. This is why Fedor Indutny did the unthinkable: forked node and created IO.js. Today, the two projects are uniting possibly offering developers the best of both worlds
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Sunday June 21 2015, @06:48PM
You could do exactly this with Java at one point. I haven't looked at it lately as Java has actually been 'fast enough' for anything I've worked on.