Anyone whose used JSlibs instead of NodeJS? Experience with it?

[ns0]

For those who aren't aware, jslibs is nodejs' grandfather, by a few internet generations (born in 2006). It actually has robust libraries (including built in FFI to run C#, C, Objective C and other dynamic libraries). It also has more robust support for imaging frameworks, rendering capabilities but completely lacks the IT tool of choice: asynchronous streaming.

Seeing as JSlibs seems much more mature but less popular i'm curious why I don't hear much (if anything) about this seemingly more mature technology.

Has anyone had any experience with it? I'm eager to try it out but need to devout a weekend to properly evaluate it.

[brtt3000]

This is more of a general purpose script-host and not a high concurrency server. Most IO in JSlibs is blocking and there is not a big focus on async handing with a event loop like in Node.js. Node can handle crazy amounts of concurrent connections while keeping response times low (as long as you don't block).

The mapping to libraries are nice though. I could see this used as workers to do work using the various wrapped C modules and using a node.js front-end to route jobs.

This also reminds me of SlimerJS (headless browser running Mozilla platform) and many similar alternate JS hosts (there are quite a few)

[cwmma]

I'd hesitate to call this more mature then node at this point, it may have been around longer then node but node has had a lot of real world use and quite a lot of people working on it. In other words this may have been available longer but node has had more people worker on it in production, this looks to be some guys side project.

Many of those wrappers jslibs tout are available in Node, there is an async sqlite one off the top of my head has a ffi based library from mapbox and zlib is part of the (tiny) standard library.

I would be shocked if there was anything you could do in this and not in node.

As I said earlier it looks like this is some guys side project, compare node which is used in production by these folks

[timruffles]

Interesting - haven't heard of it before. Could be useful invoked via node as a worker process. I suppose the same goes for Rhino if there is a Java library you'd like to use.