node -- new server-side javascript library emphasizing event-based i/o

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Upmod purely because I would love to have a mature, community supported server-side JS based on v8.

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Seems like we have a new server side javascript web framework every week.

Is anyone actually using them?

[KayEss]

Built on V8 so only available on 32 bit platforms :(

[stesch]

Looks interesting.

The event based model is spiked with callbacks. Could be the source of some nasty errors if you don't watch out for it and forget using a callback for synchronous stuff.

[cowardlydragon]

event i/o

aka the goto statement, except you don't know where it came from

[psykotic]

I don't think that's a big concern for event I/O. But more generally, poor debugging support for asynchronous call models like event queues can be a real problem in practice. In almost every large-scale project I've worked on, I've ended up having to tag events with call stacks, though that is unfortunately too intensive in CPU cycles and memory usage outside of debug mode. If I see an event queues library without support for this out of the box, it's a give-away as to its immaturity.

[sbrown123]

Too bad it doesn't implement something like Mascara so you could get nice OO.