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"Its development and maintenance is by Joyent"[edit]

The citation for this points at http://www.sdtimes.com/content/article.aspx?ArticleID=35668&page=1, but the referenced page makes no absolutely no statements to that effect, at all.

http://nodejs.org/ does state "the node.js project is sponsored by Joyent", it would make a better citation.

However, uncritical acceptance of this as fact, without at least a statement of what "sponsor" means, makes this page more of an advert than a useful statement about who develops node.

Better would be the following page:

https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Project-Organization

Which shows that a number of companies are sponsoring Node.js development (by paying the core developers). That page is out-of-date, Ben Noordhuis was removed from the team by Joyent, and Isaac Schlueter is now an employee of Npm Inc.

Listing the 500+line Node AUTHORS file as the "Developers" doesn't reflect who the Core developers are as well as the Project's wiki page: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Project-Organization

Stable release version[edit]

Isn't the stable release version 8.7 and not 8.4?

https://nodejs.org/download/release/latest-v8.x/ only contains version 8.7. --Mortense (talk) 16:19, 13 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Where is the event loop?[edit]

Much of the technical part of the article explains the event loop, but does not make it clear where this event loop is executing. Is there one event loop per client, running on each client computer? Or is there one event loop per created server? Or is it a virtual concept without actual existence? It is obvious that it cannot be located in a single cloud-based supervisor server, for that would be a single point of failure and would prevent scaling up. If anyone knows the answer, please add it here or to the article, and thanks. Also, as a long-time Windows programmer, I am aware that Windows is based on an event-driven mechanism sometimes called the Message Pump, rather than on process and thread switching (which are also implemented in Windows, but are not so central to its programming). Does the nodejs event loop work like the Message Pump, handling event messages? Or does it interact in some way with nodejs asynchronous callbacks? David Spector (talk) 12:54, 12 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Older versions[edit]

Why does the article say that Node was first created in 2009, and even Microsoft got involved in 2011, but the first version was released in 2013? 2601:181:C380:5A40:8DB7:53F2:3337:13A2 (talk) 03:29, 21 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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