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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: 2) by deimios on Monday June 22 2015, @04:05AM

    by deimios (201) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 22 2015, @04:05AM (#199282) Journal

    If your image processing algorithm is non-blocking or can be rewritten to be non-blocking then go for it.

    Just beware: node.js runs in a single thread so if you do any synchronous heavy processing, it will hang the main thread's event loop which will pretty much hang the whole stack. This means: no pages served, no logs written until the processing is done.

    Take a look here: https://github.com/glenjamin/node-fib/blob/master/app.js [github.com] to see an example of node.js style heavy processing. It calculates the Fibonacci tree in a non-blocking way. (not my code)

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  • (Score: 2) by fleg on Monday June 22 2015, @05:08AM

    by fleg (128) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 22 2015, @05:08AM (#199292)

    understood, thanks.