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Interview with Mikeal Rogers: Node.js Fork that Ended up as a Giant, Unifying Step Forward

posted by martyb on Sunday June 21 2015, @08:17AM   Printer-friendly
from the two-nodes-back-into-one dept.

tonymercmobily writes with a FreeSoftwareMagazine interview:

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

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 22 2015, @01:02AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 22 2015, @01:02AM (#199238)

    It happened!

    https://gigaom.com/2013/12/02/slap-fight-in-node-js-land/ [gigaom.com]

    Two major contributors to the popular server-side language are squabbling over whether they can nuke gender pronouns in the Node code and project, in general. The spat, because of the nature of open-source projects, spilled over on this Github thread. Long story short is that one major Node.js contributor, Ben Noordhuis, rejected a pull request that gender pronouns be eliminated. Project lead Issac Schlueter, a Joyent employee, over-rode that move.

    Joyent SVP of engineering Bryan Cantrill weighed in on all of this in a “Power of a Pronoun” blog post over the weekend because he said Joyent was being blamed for Noordhuis’ move even though he is not a Joyent employee. Joyent launched and nurtured Node.js, so it is often associated with any and all moves involving the language. Cantrill backed up what Schlueter did and added that had Noordhuis been a Joyent employee, he would have been fired.