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The author seems to be confused about what Node.js is. > NodeJS is a very young framework, and packages around it are very immature. Node.js is not a framewor
by MatthewPhillips 14y ago
The author seems to be confused about what Node.js is.
> NodeJS is a very young framework, and packages around it are very immature.
Node.js is not a framework. It is a JavaScript engine and standard library. Node is comparable to the MRI.
- buerkle 14y agoA standard library is nothing but the default framework built into the runtime system.
- MatthewPhillips 14y agoI don't see what you mean, the author is comparing Node.js to RoR so what you are referring to as a "framework", is not the same thing as the author. He is referring to a framework for writing web applications. Node is a "framework" for writing JavaScript applications that are compiled by V8 and executed on a *nix or Windows machine.
- heroic 14y agoFirst thing is that NodeJS is not a JS engine, V8 is. Second, http://notinventedhe.re/on/2011-7-26 http://notinventedhe.re/on/2011-7-26. That is from http://nodejs.org/community/ http://nodejs.org/community/ which makes the terms quite right, i'd say.
- MatthewPhillips 14y agoNode is V8 and a standard lib. Node is not an abstraction around http (which is what RoR is).
- heroic 14y ago"Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications." From nodejs.org
- MatthewPhillips 14y agoRight, and "fast, scalable network applications" !== "http abstraction layer". Node doesn't even come with an http abstraction, it comes with the standard request/response objects that nearly every standard lib ships with.
- kika 14y agoNode is an abstraction around libev. Http just happens to be the one source of events.