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 t

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/