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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 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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  • (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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