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Microsoft funded the work. My guess is since they're pushing for JS client-side apps now with WinRT; they funded node on Windows so that JS developers can run t
by ConstantineXVI 15y ago
Microsoft funded the work. My guess is since they're pushing for JS client-side apps now with WinRT; they funded node on Windows so that JS developers can run their server-side code on Windows instead of being tempted to fire up a *nix server instead.
(AFAIK, MS doesn't have any server-side JS tooling similar to node at the moment. Very good chance that I'm wrong, though.)
- hammerdr 15y agoMicrosoft has JScript.NET (and has for a while now). http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms974588.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms974588.aspx I haven't seen it used anywhere as a server side application, though.
- duncans 15y agoJScript.NET was dropped for .NET 4.0; it has always been a bit of a curiosity though. I think it was there because "classic" ASP had support for doing server-side scripting in JScript, so somebody thought ASP.NET needed to support it also. Thankfully, there are a few alternative JavaScript implementations on .NET such as IronJS.