Fogus: Node.js should become its own language

Re:Fogus: Node.js should become its own language by sovande on Tuesday April 12, 2011 @10:25AM (#2437307)

> It's not deceptive if you have a preemptively multitasking runtime that you trust

That may be so, but since Javascript is inherently single threaded _and_ this is about javascript I agree with Cushman that it is indeed deceptive.

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Re:Fogus: Node.js should become its own language by jerf on Tuesday April 12, 2011 @11:30AM (#2437604)

But we aren't talking about Javascript. It's about a theoretical replacement language.

Also, the reason you care about the "synchronicity" in the first place is because your environment forces you to care! When it all Just Works (TM), you don't care whether it's "synchronous" or not. That's a deficiency in your language, not a feature.

I'm not theorizing. I program in this sort of language all the time. You worry much more simply about how long something will take, which you can never not worry about, rather than how many bits are "synchronous".

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Re:Fogus: Node.js should become its own language by sovande on Tuesday April 12, 2011 @12:34PM (#2437912)

> But we aren't talking about Javascript. It's about a theoretical replacement language.

Apparently the plan is to implement this "theoretical replacement language" in javascript using node.js

https://github.com/fogus/funode/blob/master/src/funode.js

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Re:Fogus: Node.js should become its own language by awj on Tuesday April 12, 2011 @12:24PM (#2437868)

> That may be so, but since Javascript is inherently single threaded

Is that in the language standard, or are you confusing details of implementations for the language's design?

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Re:Fogus: Node.js should become its own language by sovande on Tuesday April 12, 2011 @12:47PM (#2437971)

Yes, as far as there is a standard and no

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