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Node.js, a popular tool for building modern internet services, has split in two

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Re: Node.js, a popular tool for building modern internet services, has split in two

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Post by hbbio »

zkhalique wrote: post #15

I think the intersection of politics and internet is interesting. I write about it quite a bit on my blog, as well as here: http://qbix.com/blog/index.php/2013/04/a-new-kind-of-platfor... In this case, we see sort of an "arab spring" of open source projects lately. Consider MySQL after it was bought by Oracle, and then the MariaDB fork was born. Now we have Node.js and Docker being forked. Until now, most successful…

Docker is not being forked. CoreOS (which is another company, not a "democratic community") is launching a competing project: Rocket, and tries to leverage the popularity of Docker for that.

Re: Node.js, a popular tool for building modern internet services, has split in two

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Post by [deleted] »

AustinG08 wrote: post #12
dudus wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can think of MySQL. While I wouldn't call it dead by any measure it certainly suffered when the spit happened.

Since i'm a newbie and I couldn't find anything with a simple search, could you elaborate on that particular MySQL situation?

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Re: Node.js, a popular tool for building modern internet services, has split in two

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Post by kibwen »

zkhalique wrote: post #15

I think the intersection of politics and internet is interesting. I write about it quite a bit on my blog, as well as here: http://qbix.com/blog/index.php/2013/04/a-new-kind-of-platfor... In this case, we see sort of an "arab spring" of open source projects lately. Consider MySQL after it was bought by Oracle, and then the MariaDB fork was born. Now we have Node.js and Docker being forked. Until now, most successful…

Rocket actually isn't a fork of Docker. From https://coreos.com/blog/rocket/ :

  > Why not just fork Docker?

  > From a security and composability perspective, the 
  > Docker process model - where everything runs through a 
  > central daemon - is fundamentally flawed. To “fix” 
  > Docker would essentially mean a rewrite of the project, 
  > while inheriting all the baggage of the existing 
  > implementation.

Re: Node.js, a popular tool for building modern internet services, has split in two

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Post by privong »

AustinG08 wrote: post #12
dudus wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can think of MySQL. While I wouldn't call it dead by any measure it certainly suffered when the spit happened.

Since i'm a newbie and I couldn't find anything with a simple search, could you elaborate on that particular MySQL situation?

The short version is that MySQL was acquired by Oracle (when Oracle purchased Sun Microsystems). Following concerns about it remaining open source, MySQL was forked by it original creator, and is developed as MariaDB[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MariaDB

Re: Node.js, a popular tool for building modern internet services, has split in two

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Post by [deleted] »

AustinG08 wrote: post #12
dudus wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can think of MySQL. While I wouldn't call it dead by any measure it certainly suffered when the spit happened.

Since i'm a newbie and I couldn't find anything with a simple search, could you elaborate on that particular MySQL situation?

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Re: Node.js, a popular tool for building modern internet services, has split in two

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Post by craigching »

debacle wrote: post #2

> actually set up this foundation because they’re still hoping that Joyent will let them to use the Node.js trademark. Is that naivete on the side of Io.js here, or is there more to the story?

I'm not sure what you're asking, you left out the key part of the quote:

> the team hasn’t actually set up this foundation because they’re still hoping that Joyent will let them to use the Node.js trademark.

Frankly, I kinda like the name Io.js better than Node.js

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Post by Kiro »

Dobbs wrote: post #20
Thaxll wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But it's true that Node is losing traction.

I can only speak from the perspective of my company. We had quite a few pro-node people. They wrote services in node. All of those node services have since been rewritten in Go by the formerly-pro-node people. Go has been much more manageable and powerful.

What kind of services are they?
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