It's about forking time: Node.js, io.js to mend differences, remerge

The Node.js open source project and its fork, io.js, have decided to kiss and make up, with the aid and support of the Linux Foundation. Node.js is an open-source, OS-agnostic runtime environment that allows developers to write server-side web applications using JavaScript. Several prominent Node.js developers forked its code …

[John Geek]

geez guys, when you take a close up picture of a computer screen, CLEAN IT FIRST.

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe that was their point.

[Stretch]

Idiotic javascript frameworks reduced by one. Millions to go.

Go learn Java people.

[Paul J Turner]

@Stretch

Someone was listening... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/16/aws_lambda_java_support/

[werdsmith]

I was kind of hoping that Java would just disappear.

Having learned it thoroughly, I have no intention of going anywhere near it again, or entertaining and product that depends on it.

[LucreLout]

or entertaining and product that depends on it

Fanboi, or tramp? (I'm a tramp, as it happens)

Android is pretty damn good, and is one of several reasons why I've started picking up Java _in addition_ to .NET (which I've been doing since 2001).

Java, in my view, needs a serious amount of money spending on it. The current five year plan is not ambitious, especially when compared to Microsofts plan for .NET everywhere. It feels like stepping back in time to .NET 2.0 - so I'm extremely hopeful Oracle will flog it to someone that can afford to spend on it.

[MadMike]

Java is Enterprise, C# is not

Enterprise is characterized by stability and very long support cycles. Some Mainframes still run very very old code today. Java is targeting Enterprise, and therefore the language evolves very slowly. This was an outspoken goal by Sun. But the development of all libraries should be very fast, but the language development slow and thoughtful. Java is not about adding every feature available, like C++ or C#. It is about maturity and stability.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Java is Enterprise, C# is not

"Java is not about adding every feature available, like C++ or C#. It is about maturity and stability."

ITYF C++ is pretty damn mature by now. Sure , the standards committee just don't know when to leave well alone but the core language won't change and has been stable since 98. In 98 java was just some toy language used in web craplets.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Java is Enterprise, C# is not

Blimey! 2002 called and wants their incorrect opinion back..... I bet there are a lot more enterprise systems in use developed in C# than there are developed in Java. And I am not hearing about them failing all the time. Are you?

[Anonymous Coward]

"I was kind of hoping that Java would just disappear."

Java might not be the best programming language around but compared to the dogs dinner known as javascript it could have been written by Turing himself.

Its bad enough with javashit in the browser, I can't imagine the reasoning behind using it server side other than the people using it are former web hacks who only know javascript and are now trying to do some grown up programming using it. Well good luck, with that.

[Bronek Kozicki]

let me get it straight

So we have Node.js Foundation overseeing development of re-united Node.js and io.js, of which Microsoft (among others) is a member, and it will be overseen by Linux Foundation? What's next, an ice rink in hell?