Update (2011/9/11): this post is picking up again 8 months later, I’ve written an update as of where we stand.

Jason Hoffman (Chief Scientist, Founder at Joyent) has posted some good questions to me, based on my original nodejs and V8 post. Let me summarise Jason’s questions and comments into three key messages:

It’s Joyent’s responsibility that NodeJS runs well period. We’re not afraid of a language VM. [...] actual node.js committers (who all work at Joyent) know quite a bit and have pretty good relations with the V8 team.

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Update: Jason Hoffman (Chief Scientist, Founder of Joyent) has written a very good response to this post. Obviously I owe him some responses, which is on a separate post.

If you have not watched Douglas Crockford’s video lecture on server-side Javascript, I recommend you do that first before reading further into this post.

I have been saying for a while that server-side Javascript matters. We, at Yahoo!, see a bright future in server-side Javascript and are making a big investment in it.…