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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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Interview with Mikeal Rogers: Node.js Fork that Ended up as a Giant, Unifying Step Forward
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Don't believe everything you hear or anything you say.
(Score: 2) by mtrycz on Sunday June 21 2015, @12:21PM
ECMAScript6 - the attempt to repay the technological dept of JavaScript - is due to come out this year. I don't expect it to "fix" Javascript, but thet's the best people are able to come up with, other than WebAssembly (precompiled blobs that run in your browser).
node is good for i/o intensive work, because of its asynchronous i/o model, but since it's singlethreaded, cpu-intesnive loads will hog up all interactions.
It's good for some quick web-related stuff, it's easy to pickup and fast to prototype in - for small projects where a bigger language or framework would be overkill. For bigger projects: with js it's way to easy to shoot yourself in the foot.
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(Score: 2) by mtrycz on Sunday June 21 2015, @12:24PM
Oh, and the hate node.js is getting, is because of it's userbase - fervent hipsters that just can't understand that people have other use-cases than their webdev stuff.
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(Score: 2) by mtrycz on Sunday June 21 2015, @12:28PM
Also, "cloud" companies tend to offer bandwidth for much cheaper than storage, cpu and ram. A small 1 core / 512 ram vps instance goes for as little as 5$ a month. If the application is actually i/o bound with small cpu overhead, then with asynchronous io you'll get better performance than with traditional (threaded) webservers.
Sorry, I just can't think clearly right now.
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(Score: 1) by Pino P on Sunday June 21 2015, @03:41PM
A small 1 core / 512 ram vps instance goes for as little as 5$ a month.
Is that with its own IPv4 address, or is it behind a NAT?
(Score: 2) by mtrycz on Sunday June 21 2015, @04:15PM
Digitalocean, which I am not affiliated with, but ofen use, gives you a public ipv4 (or ipv6 in some regions), and optional "private networking". Also, it's the most flexible I know (haven't tried most of the new ones like Heroku, tho), giving you the option to create and destroy "droplets" on the fly, and even programmatically with an API. The cheapest "doplet" is 5$ a month with hourly billing, and you can dispose of your "droplet" when you're done.
I think it wasn't actually invented for stable hosting, but dynamic prototyping and such, but the prices are good even as hosting goes, for the small instances. For VPS at least. I don't know how does it compare for big instances, since I have never used those... all my projects are small/low traffic.
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(Score: 1) by Pino P on Sunday June 21 2015, @02:54PM
ECMAScript6 - the attempt to repay the technological dept of JavaScript - is due to come out this year.
ECMAScript 6 is already "out" in the sense that it's been approved by Ecma [sdtimes.com].