Samsung Acquires Joyent • Hacker News Board

Re: Samsung Acquires Joyent

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Post by nbrempel » Thu, Jun 16, 2016, 3:30 AM UTC

bcantrill wrote: post #8

In case anyone's curious, I blogged about the backstory of the acquisition.[1] tl;dr: We at Joyent are elated, and we believe that this will be a huge win for our customers, for our technologies and for the communities that they serve! [1] https://www.joyent.com/blog/samsung-acquires-joyent-a-ctos-p...

Congrats Bryan! :D

Re: Samsung Acquires Joyent

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Post by neom » Thu, Jun 16, 2016, 3:30 AM UTC

bcantrill wrote: post #8

In case anyone's curious, I blogged about the backstory of the acquisition.[1] tl;dr: We at Joyent are elated, and we believe that this will be a huge win for our customers, for our technologies and for the communities that they serve! [1] https://www.joyent.com/blog/samsung-acquires-joyent-a-ctos-p...

Congrats my friend. :)

Re: Samsung Acquires Joyent

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Post by wrong_variable » Thu, Jun 16, 2016, 3:31 AM UTC

cpprototypes wrote: post #4

Samsung is a typical asian electronics company (has a hardware focused history and very good at it, but doesn't understand or respect software). I'm so glad that node.js is not under Joyent control.

I am not sure what Samsung being Asian has to do with anything :)

This is good news for node.js since what this means is more money gets poured into node.js development.

For example Microsoft pouring money into JS seems to have lead directly to Typescript.

Re: Samsung Acquires Joyent

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Post by supster » Thu, Jun 16, 2016, 3:31 AM UTC

bcantrill wrote: post #8

In case anyone's curious, I blogged about the backstory of the acquisition.[1] tl;dr: We at Joyent are elated, and we believe that this will be a huge win for our customers, for our technologies and for the communities that they serve! [1] https://www.joyent.com/blog/samsung-acquires-joyent-a-ctos-p...

Thanks for all your work on Node.js!

Re: Samsung Acquires Joyent

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Post by hitr » Thu, Jun 16, 2016, 3:31 AM UTC

I always thought Microsoft/Google or the likes would acquire Joyent as it is good product fit. Microsoft chose linkedin instead :) For Samsung this is all about IoT .Samsung wants to own both the devices and backend. A good move IMHO

Re: Samsung Acquires Joyent

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Post by hoodoof » Thu, Jun 16, 2016, 3:32 AM UTC

I wonder how much for.

Re: Samsung Acquires Joyent

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Post by wvenable » Thu, Jun 16, 2016, 3:32 AM UTC

brotherjerky wrote: post #3

So the biggest phone manufacturer now owns a lot of Node.js expertise. Hopefully that leads to more JS in mobile!

I had a friend ask why the Oneplus one 3 could possibly need 6GB of RAM. Thank you for providing a possible answer! :)

Re: Samsung Acquires Joyent

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Post by nickpsecurity » Thu, Jun 16, 2016, 3:33 AM UTC

bcantrill wrote: post #8

In case anyone's curious, I blogged about the backstory of the acquisition.[1] tl;dr: We at Joyent are elated, and we believe that this will be a huge win for our customers, for our technologies and for the communities that they serve! [1] https://www.joyent.com/blog/samsung-acquires-joyent-a-ctos-p...

Congratulations! Good to see a strong platform combined with my favorite Android company.

Re: Samsung Acquires Joyent

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Post by jankassens » Thu, Jun 16, 2016, 3:36 AM UTC

brotherjerky wrote: post #3

So the biggest phone manufacturer now owns a lot of Node.js expertise. Hopefully that leads to more JS in mobile!

They're definitely doing research for efficient JS on low end devices:

- AOT compilation for a subset of JS: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2015/EECS-2015-13...

- "A JavaScript engine for Internet of Things": http://samsung.github.io/jerryscript/

Re: Samsung Acquires Joyent

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Post by dmpk2k » Thu, Jun 16, 2016, 3:37 AM UTC

vermontdevil wrote: post #7

Is this the same company that sponsored the development of Node JS?

Joyent funded most of node.js' development since 2010. Once node became popular and competing companies appeared, with the commensurate agitation and political fallout, Joyent became less involved with it.