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What is so great about node.js? libevent has been around for ages, and it's got Python bindings (pyevent)...
by swolchok 16y ago
What is so great about node.js? libevent has been around for ages, and it's got Python bindings (pyevent)...
- pufuwozu 16y ago1. The core library is completely event-based and most of the third-party libraries are event-based. Not true for Python, Ruby, etc. 2. JavaScript has grown in an event-based environment (browsers). Any serious JS developer is already familiar with event-based programming because of it. It's debatable whether JS syntax is very event friendly, however (CoffeeScript has made an attempt at fixing it).
- kneath 16y agoIn fact the source of nodeload is written in CoffeeScript