GerritV
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Node.js for WinIoT

Fri May 15, 2015 10:33 am

Announced recently: http://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2 ... -iot-core/

Should be useful to those who enjoy Java. Note there is a jvm java script engine built into Windows 10, which means it is also on WinIoT.

io.js is coming as well

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Re: Node.js for WinIoT

Fri May 15, 2015 10:44 am

Note that Java and JavaScript have less in common than the name implies. node.js therefore does not use
a Java Virtual Machine , but a JavaScript Engine.

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Re: Node.js for WinIoT

Fri May 15, 2015 11:06 am

Corrected, I should have waited with posting until my second cappuccino :-)

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Re: Node.js for WinIoT

Fri May 15, 2015 11:10 am

Node.js is a platform for running JavaScript from the command line or as a server. It has nothing to do with Java.

It's a bit disturbing to see MS getting involved in Node development. It was MS that insisted on baking in many broken features of the early JavaScript language standard. Bugs that Netscape, creators of the language, wanted to fix in the standard, ECMA-262, and we still have to live with today.
Memory in C++ is a leaky abstraction .

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Re: Node.js for WinIoT

Fri May 15, 2015 11:29 am

There just is never any good news for you is there Heater? Life must be miserable.

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Re: Node.js for WinIoT

Fri May 15, 2015 12:08 pm

GerritV,
Life must be miserable.
Life, don't talk to me about life.

More seriously, there is lot's of good news. Node.js works just fine on the Pi already. Has done for ages.
Memory in C++ is a leaky abstraction .

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Re: Node.js for WinIoT

Fri May 15, 2015 12:21 pm

Heater wrote:
More seriously, there is lot's of good news. Node.js works just fine on the Pi already. Has done for ages.
Actually, it already runs fine on Windows as well. https://nodejs.org/download/. And soon people will have another choice of OS/platform, WinIoT with a smaller footprint.

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