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Re: Vert.x – JVM Polyglot Alternative to Node.js

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Post by emblemparade » Sat, May 05, 2012, 6:26 PM UTC

There are other alternatives for polyglot JVM goodness, for example this based on Restlet:

http://threecrickets.com/prudence/

Plus a whole framework based around MongoDB:

http://threecrickets.com/savory/

Re: Vert.x – JVM Polyglot Alternative to Node.js

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Post by ricardobeat » Sun, May 06, 2012, 1:55 AM UTC

juiceandjuice wrote: post #72

ricardobeat wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Node is nearing 10k published libraries. Is there a comprehensive site listing Java libraries? It's trivial to offload blocking operations to other processes in node too, it's just not the preferred option.

Have you ever programmed in Java? That's a strange question to ask if you have. http://mvnrepository.com/ Whatever libraries node has is a drop in the bucket compared to java.

I haven't, thats why I asked. Node is just 2 years old. You'll get 90% of garbage on any open package manager.

Re: Vert.x – JVM Polyglot Alternative to Node.js

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Post by lucian1900 » Sun, May 06, 2012, 11:51 AM UTC

tantalor wrote: post #49

lucian1900 wrote: post #2

So it's more like Twisted (a library) than Node (a runtime + a library).

Node is more like a library than a runtime. Its runtime is V8. The node libs could be ported to another JavaScript engine such as jsc, narwhal, or ringo. > Node.js consists of Google's V8 JavaScript engine plus several built-in libraries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nodejs

Node ships with both runtime and async library, unlike Twisted, which doesn't ship Python.