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I'm curious what you mean by that. This is basically a wrapper around the iMessage SQLite database – it could equally well have been implemented in Ruby, or Pyt

I'm curious what you mean by that. This is basically a wrapper around the iMessage SQLite database – it could equally well have been implemented in Ruby, or Python, or Go. Projects like this always seem to be implemented in whatever environment the developer wants to use, which is great, but not really relevant. I don't see any particularly interesting innovation from Node.js projects when compared with any other similar community.

jekrb 12y ago
I know what you mean when something could have been implemented in X, Y, or Z language, but I too, have noticed some really interesting projects in Node.js. One of my favorites is torrent-mount. It allows me to use virtual machines directly from a torrent stream, rather than first downloading the entire vm. https://github.com/mafintosh/torrent-mount https://github.com/mafintosh/torrent-mount
- drdaeman 12y ago
  JavaScript happens to be hip-of-the-day language. For example, torrent-mount's idea isn't something novel. It was voiced[1] and implemented[2][3] a number of times before, and the links are what I got just by a single Google query. It's just that Node is a trending platform today (although some may say it's popularity peak had passed already), so the surrounding chatter's more active and thus you're likely to find out about those. Or, possibly, there's even some bias like when you're looking for interesting projects on resources where JS-favoring people gather. [1] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.fuse.devel/1666 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.fuse.deve... [2] https://github.com/rkfg/BTFS https://github.com/rkfg/BTFS [3] http://btslave.sourceforge.net/ http://btslave.sourceforge.net/