Re:Try Node.js for 2¢ or less in ~2 minutes
by jrockway on Thursday March 31, 2011 @11:44PM
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The posts targets users not familiar with nix systems as well.
So the idea is to convince them to run servers connected directly to the Internet without any system administration skills? No wonder I get so much spam.
Somehow I think distributing binaries would be the logical solution to "node.js is hard to compile", not convincing people with no UNIX experience to pay Amazon $70 a month to let them run their very own server. But that's just me.
(I have personally compiled node from source on Debian and RHEL5. It was easy on both machines. The hardest part was to get waf to use all 32 cores on that RHEL machine for the build. But it's actually documented in the node docs!)
So the idea is to convince them to run servers connected directly to the Internet without any system administration skills? No wonder I get so much spam.
Somehow I think distributing binaries would be the logical solution to "node.js is hard to compile", not convincing people with no UNIX experience to pay Amazon $70 a month to let them run their very own server. But that's just me.
(I have personally compiled node from source on Debian and RHEL5. It was easy on both machines. The hardest part was to get waf to use all 32 cores on that RHEL machine for the build. But it's actually documented in the node docs!)