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Node.js v4.0.0 Released
New submitter TFlan91 writes: The first merge of the popular Node.js and io.js repositories has been released! From the announcement: "The collaborators of the Node.js project and the members of the Node.js Foundation are proud to offer v4.0.0 for general release. This release represents countless hours of hard work encapsulated in both the Node.js project and the io.js project that are now combined in a single codebase. The Node.js project is now operated by a team of 44 collaborators, 15 of which form its Technical Steering Committee (TSC). Further, over 100 new individuals have been added to the list of people contributing code to core since v0.12.7."
Javascript, no matter how you try to make useful toolkits to assist in coding, is a horrible clusterfuck of a language. It's as good an example of how really fucking terrible languages can go on for years, despite every possible inferiority one can imagine, simply out of penetration and inertia. It's just a gawdawful shitty language.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
If you want to know why PHP skipped 6, this is an interesting read: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php6
But the key reason seems to be (selective c&p from the page):
- PHP 6 already existed and it was something completely different.
- PHP 6, the original PHP 6, has been discussed in detail in many PHP conferences.
- PHP 6 was widely known not only within the Internals community, but around the PHP community at large.
- There's lots of PHP 6 information, about the original PHP 6, that exists around the web. Books are the smallest part of the problem.