convore.json/groups/hacker-news/what-is-nodejs/messages.json

[{"user_id": 8327, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35889, "date_created": 1305760330.0865519, "message": "I don't get this \"Node isn't a framework\" thing, it's not an engine; it uses V8, it's not a language; that's JavaScript. Surely it's some sort of non-blocking framework?", "group_id": 95, "id": 1104414}, {"user_id": 719, "stars": [{"date_created": 1305760765.568114, "user_id": 8327}, {"date_created": 1305761081.0060589, "user_id": 960}, {"date_created": 1305779244.1438479, "user_id": 15929}, {"date_created": 1305810393.2414851, "user_id": 11369}, {"date_created": 1305958157.8118589, "user_id": 1521}, {"date_created": 1305962446.6714239, "user_id": 33347}, {"date_created": 1305982685.6808059, "user_id": 30901}], "topic_id": 35889, "date_created": 1305760675.9205539, "message": "\"Node describes itself as \u201cevented I/O for V8 javascript\u201d. It\u2019s a toolkit for writing extremely high performance non-blocking event driven network servers in JavaScript. Think similar to Twisted or EventMachine but for JavaScript instead of Python or Ruby.\" - @simonw", "group_id": 95, "id": 1104461}, {"user_id": 8327, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35889, "date_created": 1305760301.9438629, "message": "I've used node.JS for a while now, and have come across various descriptions of it, none that I've found wholely accurate", "group_id": 95, "id": 1104412}, {"user_id": 960, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35889, "date_created": 1305760409.1562741, "message": "Node is a toolkit", "group_id": 95, "id": 1104429}, {"user_id": 719, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35889, "date_created": 1305760432.449224, "message": "@mal I know just the perfect person to answer this but I don't think he's on convore. @maraksquires", "group_id": 95, "id": 1104432}, {"user_id": 8327, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35889, "date_created": 1305760786.5207419, "message": "I like it! Cheers @micrypt", "group_id": 95, "id": 1104479}, {"user_id": 28560, "stars": [{"date_created": 1305797713.1740341, "user_id": 33692}], "topic_id": 35889, "date_created": 1305763428.6081891, "message": "I would say it's more than that now.  It's a platform.  It's an easy, consistent way to install v8 - node - and a Javascript package manager - npm.", "group_id": 95, "id": 1104837}, {"user_id": 33672, "stars": [{"date_created": 1305765889.840905, "user_id": 719}, {"date_created": 1305781511.9051721, "user_id": 1661}, {"date_created": 1305814967.2887681, "user_id": 960}, {"date_created": 1305972655.8144159, "user_id": 8327}], "topic_id": 35889, "date_created": 1305765879.035675, "message": "Node.js is an I/O chainsaw that specializes in cutting http, tcp, and files.", "group_id": 95, "id": 1105166}, {"user_id": 5151, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35889, "date_created": 1305771061.6764469, "message": "Node is a toolkit for building frameworks, primarily web frameworks but but at all limited to them.", "group_id": 95, "id": 1106101}, {"user_id": 561, "stars": [{"date_created": 1305785325.114078, "user_id": 561}], "topic_id": 35889, "date_created": 1305784038.7217121, "message": "I'm a Node. OBEuhdo,ucg!", "group_id": 95, "id": 1108592}, {"user_id": 9289, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35889, "date_created": 1305784231.7902761, "message": "using a term from the 90's node is an 'application server' - an async Javascript based application server that runs on V8 ( the interpreter not the veggie juice)", "group_id": 95, "id": 1108616}, {"user_id": 561, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35889, "date_created": 1305785049.5434749, "message": "Node is JavaScript's ghost standard library. Node is JavaScript on the ground. Node is a portable platform implementation thereof.", "group_id": 95, "id": 1108703}, {"user_id": 4935, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35889, "date_created": 1306007138.121671, "message": "Node is something you should say yes to.", "group_id": 95, "id": 1136187}, {"user_id": 17174, "stars": [{"date_created": 1307408605.2257299, "user_id": 34980}], "topic_id": 35889, "date_created": 1306045520.794683, "message": "Node.JS is a cross platform runtime for Javascript. It uses V8 as its Javascript engine. A Javascript engine is the interpreter for the Javascript programming language. It requires a runtime implementation in order to perform I/O and other tasks. Usually the implementation layer is the web browser. In Node.JS case, it's the Node.JS binary runtime. The runtime provides evented I/O by utilizing Kernel system calls such as epoll, kqueue, /dev/poll, or select. This means that all I/O calls to the OS will not block the main thread. (Founder of the Singapore Node.JS User Group @ http://www.facebook.com/?sk=group_202151969821875)", "group_id": 95, "id": 1140238}]