IO.js – Evented I/O for V8 javascript

Re:IO.js – Evented I/O for V8 javascript by jared314 on Thursday November 27, 2014 @11:48PM (#8669709)

Joyent is accused of:

1. Fixating on platform stability over project evolution

2. Ignoring the community on project direction

3. Preserving public image over project committers

4. Being a total square

NOTE: I am against the fork.

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Re:IO.js – Evented I/O for V8 javascript by girvo on Thursday November 27, 2014 @11:56PM (#8669726)

> 1. Fixating on platform stability over project evolution

That's... hardly a bad thing, in my humble opinion. The other language I use at work, PHP, is a case-study in what happens when you "evolve" a project willy-nilly with little regard to platform stability. Nowadays, it's better, because the community has become more involved in the process, so I can see what #2 and #3 are Bad Things™ however.

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Re:IO.js – Evented I/O for V8 javascript by invisible on Friday November 28, 2014 @02:53AM (#8670040)

Unfortunately, I think node.js is still lacking in a lot of regards that a brief spurt of "willy-nilly" commits (plus some dictatorship-style thoughtfulness) would help. Many of the builtin modules are still "beta" and even core stable ones lack some features that require using unsupported/undocumented properties (it is not even clear why some of it is undocumented).

I use node.js in production so I'm not knocking it outright but you quickly understand the plights if you try to do anything with node that scales well.

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Re:IO.js – Evented I/O for V8 javascript by k__ on Friday November 28, 2014 @12:01AM (#8669736)

PHP?

I had the feeling that much evolution happend from 1 to 5 but not much afterwards :\

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Re:IO.js – Evented I/O for V8 javascript by skrebbel on Friday November 28, 2014 @03:48AM (#8670182)

Have you at all been paying attention? PHP 5.6 has namespaces, closures, lambdas, generators, autoloaders, traits, function argument splats, sane array literals - basically everything the authors ever saw in good use, anywhere.

There is hardly any difference between PHP 4 and 5, except internals. The only real big difference between PHP 3 and PHP 4 is a different class syntax.

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Re:IO.js – Evented I/O for V8 javascript by k__ on Friday November 28, 2014 @10:28AM (#8671164)

Well, I switched from PHP to JavaScript, so, no lol.

I thought the class system was improved with 5 and was unusable with 4. At least that was what I read. I started with ... PHP 5.2

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Re:IO.js – Evented I/O for V8 javascript by girvo on Friday November 28, 2014 @09:46PM (#8672910)

PHP 5.6 and what Facebook are doing with HHVM/Hack are (in the latter case, literally) entirely new languages than PHP4 or even pre-5.3, and with the PSR community standards body, Composer/Packagist and the massive amounts of interoperation between libraries nowadays, it's actually enjoyable to code in again :)

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Re:IO.js – Evented I/O for V8 javascript by mappu on Friday November 28, 2014 @12:08AM (#8669751)

5.3 is basically a whole new language. Development is pretty quick and regular ever since 5.4 and the new RFC process.

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