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heroic
on May 14, 2012
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Why we moved from NodeJS to Ruby on Rails
First thing is that NodeJS is not a JS engine, V8 is. Second,
http://notinventedhe.re/on/2011-7-26
. That is from
http://nodejs.org/community/
which makes the terms quite right, i'd say.
MatthewPhillips
on May 14, 2012
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V8 and a standard lib. Node is not an abstraction around http (which is what RoR is).
heroic
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"Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications."
From nodejs.org
MatthewPhillips
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Right, and "fast, scalable network applications" !== "http abstraction layer". Node doesn't even come with an http abstraction, it comes with the standard request/response objects that nearly every standard lib ships with.
kika
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Node is an abstraction around libev. Http just happens to be the one source of events.
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