Comments on: Narwhal: Standard Library that implements ServerJS

By: gizmogwai

gizmogwai — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 07:30:08 +0000

Hum, does anyone know how well (or bad) it behaves compare to ejscript?

By: tlrobinson

tlrobinson — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:37:20 +0000

Smith: Correct, sort of. Narwhal is the actual implementation of the ServerJS standard.

Jack, Chiron, Nitro, getjs are just a few of hopefully many ServerJS / Narwhal compatible packages.

It’s still a work in progress (particularly since the ServerJS standard is still a work in progress) but it’s at a point where you can start playing around with it (and contributing!)

By: hlindqvi

hlindqvi — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:38:54 +0000

The first production ready server side JavaScript Apache-module/FastCGI will probably set the standard, until then just hope they make it good enough.

By: westonruter

westonruter — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:38:47 +0000

The “ServerJS standard”? Isn’t it a bit too early to call it a standard? It seems like it’s status is the same as HTML5… holding great promise, but still a draft. From what I have seen, it still is only at a starting point: https://wiki.mozilla.org/ServerJS

By: smith

smith — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:03:03 +0000

I think the above description may be a little misleading, though it’s confusing at best.

The projects mentioned above are Narwhal *packages*, which use Narwhal for its standard library and module functionality. If I’m not mistaken, Narwhal itself is also a package. So all of these projects depend on Narwhal, they don’t make it up.

Either way, all of them are awesome, great job everyone!