Io.js 1.0.0 - Hackdot

Re:Io.js 1.0.0 by monkey_slap on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @10:58PM (#8884200)

I still cannot figure out what this actually is besides Javascript

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Re:Io.js 1.0.0 by secoif on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @11:00PM (#8884207)

Google's v8 is the JavaScript. io.js provides APIs for performing disk and network io, using v8.

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Re:Io.js 1.0.0 by rinz on Thursday January 15, 2015 @04:45PM (#8895583)

Node has IO methods as well...

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Re:Io.js 1.0.0 by gelatocar on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @11:00PM (#8884206)

It's basically a fork of nodejs

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Re:Io.js 1.0.0 by CmonDev on Wednesday January 14, 2015 @04:12AM (#8885123)

It's an implementation of the Reactor Pattern with some package management capability. Not a platform. Not a framework. Not an engine. Just a script.

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Re:Io.js 1.0.0 by Igglyboo on Wednesday January 14, 2015 @12:08PM (#8887510)

You could literally say that about anything.

"Rails is just an implementation of the MVC pattern, not a framework."

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