On 12-05-03 at 10:40am, Russ Allbery wrote: > Patrick Ouellette <pouelle@debian.org> writes: > > How many people use Node.js? I had never heard of it until this > > came up, and I work in IT with web development teams. > > Relative numbers really isn't the point, and I'm sorry I distracted us > all with that. The point is that the node documentation says that > it's meant to be run via inetd, and that's a fairly easy thing to > update in a postinst in a transitional package and be done with it. > The popularity question is whether Node.js is widely-enough used to > warrant the effort, and I'm fairly sure that's the case based on > discussion in Communications of the ACM articles, professional > discussions with colleagues, etc. Not to mention that the popcon > count for the nodejs package is getting fairly strong (stronger than > nearly all the packages I maintain, that's for sure). > > > FWIW, the bug log from Node.js when they examined the Debian > > installations of each found them to be a similar number as reported > > by popcorn. > > That certainly isn't true any more. nodejs now has almost ten times > as many users reporting in popcon as node. ...and that popularity with nodejs yet unavailable in stable or testing! - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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