Node.js - A Giant Step Backwards

Re:Node.js - A Giant Step Backwards by jacobmt on Friday August 05, 2011 @01:02AM (#2849008)

> The reason is, there isn't something like node.js for erlang, and so I set out to fix that.

That is not true, see: https://github.com/hookio/hook.io, been in development in Node.js for over two years.

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Re:Node.js - A Giant Step Backwards by sausagefeet on Friday August 05, 2011 @07:52AM (#2849761)

I really don't see how hook is anything like Erlang. It just seems like a thin message queue on top of node.

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Re:Node.js - A Giant Step Backwards by OJ on Friday August 05, 2011 @05:49PM (#2851930)

hook.io sits on top of Node.js and deals with IO. How on earth does this relate to Nirvana's goal of having something like Node.js for Erlang?

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Re:Node.js - A Giant Step Backwards by nirvana on Friday August 05, 2011 @01:07AM (#2849013)

That looks like an interesting thing, but it is a something for node.js, not a "node.js for erlang".

By which, I meant to say "platform for building server applications in javascript, backed by the power of the erlang OTP platform."

Node.js gives server side javascript a platform, that's great. What I'm working on is giving server side coffeescript and javascript access to the erlang platform (and some really great erlang technologies.)

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