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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: 1, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 21 2015, @08:37AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 21 2015, @08:37AM (#198999)

    Node.js is the a software that allows you to run Javascript to create powerful server-side cloud applications apps by using Google's V8 Javascript Engine. As a Node developer coder myself, I have always felt frustrated by seeing that Joyent, the company behind Node.js, was extremely conservative in terms of upgrading node to use the latest V8 version; the project was also struggling to get developers coders 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 coders the best of both worlds

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by pTamok on Sunday June 21 2015, @09:24AM

    by pTamok (3042) on Sunday June 21 2015, @09:24AM (#199005)

    Oddly enough, it tends to be* only non-native speakers of English that refer to a software or a hardware. Standard English tends to use more cumbersome phrases like 'a type of software' or 'a type of hardware'. Software and hardware are examples of uncountable mass nouns: http://www.dailywritingtips.com/is-software-a-mass-noun/ [dailywritingtips.com]

    *of course there are exceptions. English is littered with exceptions. Natural languages are messy.

    • (Score: 5, Funny) by AnonTechie on Sunday June 21 2015, @09:36AM

      by AnonTechie (2275) on Sunday June 21 2015, @09:36AM (#199006) Journal

      Reminds me of something I recently read: (Author unknown to me)

      English is One Strange Language ...

      Things that make no sense !

      There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig ...

      And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth ? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese ? One index, 2 indices ? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend ? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

      If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught ? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat ? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital ? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell ?

      How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.

      English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.

      PS. - Why doesn't 'Buick' rhyme with 'quick' ?

      --
      Albert Einstein - "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

      • (Score: 5, Informative) by c0lo on Sunday June 21 2015, @10:09AM

        by c0lo (156) on Sunday June 21 2015, @10:09AM (#199010) Journal

        something I recently read: (Author unknown to me)

        There [wordsmith.org] - author is Richard Lederer [wikipedia.org] - aka "the Wizard of Idiom," "Attila the Pun," and "Conan the Grammarian." His blog may worth a visit from time to time, one may pick interesting facts on words (e.g. "Explode comes from the Latin explodere, “to chase away by clapping one’s hands.” In ancient Rome, disgruntled theatergoers would clap loudly to show their dissatisfaction with the performance on stage.").
        Don't trust quite everything, hamburger has no fault for having nothing to do with ham, as this style of sandwich got its name from the city of Hamburg [wikipedia.org] somehow.

        --
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0

        • (Score: 2) by AnonTechie on Sunday June 21 2015, @12:17PM

          by AnonTechie (2275) on Sunday June 21 2015, @12:17PM (#199043) Journal

          Thanks c0lo

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          Albert Einstein - "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

        • (Score: 1) by Pino P on Sunday June 21 2015, @02:43PM

          by Pino P (4721) on Sunday June 21 2015, @02:43PM (#199081) Journal

          this style of sandwich got its name from the city of Hamburg somehow.

          And it turns out they don't even know [wikipedia.org] where the "Ham" in Hamburg comes from.

          • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday June 21 2015, @02:58PM

            by c0lo (156) on Sunday June 21 2015, @02:58PM (#199084) Journal
            Most probable it not from "the upper part of a pig's leg" - that would be "schinken".
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            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0

        • (Score: 2) by stormwyrm on Monday June 22 2015, @05:51AM

          by stormwyrm (717) on Monday June 22 2015, @05:51AM (#199299) Journal
          Also, the name 'eggplant' actually came about because there actually are some cultivars of eggplant that are white and really do look like eggs, like these [tablematters.com]. These smaller, egg-like white or pale yellow varieties were the sort seen in the 18th century when the plant was introduced to the British Isles, and so the name stuck even after the long purple varieties became more common. Tellingly, the Brits tend to call these comestibles 'aubergines' instead just as the French always have.
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          Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate.

          • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday June 22 2015, @06:22AM

            by c0lo (156) on Monday June 22 2015, @06:22AM (#199305) Journal

            Tellingly, the Brits tend to call these comestibles 'aubergines' instead just as the French always have.

            Wasn't always so. Wikipedia entry [wikipedia.org]:

            Even the archaic English name mad-apple comes from the melongena family: in Italian, the word melanzana was reinterpreted in Italian as mela insana, and translated into English as mad apple.

            In the western Mediterranean, (al)-bāḏinjān became Spanish berenjena, Catalan as albergínia, and Portuguese beringela. The Catalan form was borrowed by French as aubergine, which was then borrowed into British English

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            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0

        • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Monday June 22 2015, @08:33AM

          by aristarchus (2645) on Monday June 22 2015, @08:33AM (#199337) Journal

          This doth gruntle me most couth. Etymology is not always what entymologists think it ought to be. Or bee.

  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 21 2015, @05:47PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 21 2015, @05:47PM (#199133)

    grammatical word choices errors different from those I would have made, in summary

    ftfy