Re: node.js
  By: Mortifis to All on Mon Jul 22 2019 00:20:09

 Mo> I was wondering, can SBBS use node.js

Not in any meaningful way.

If a script was written to be run under node.js, it is almost guaranteed not to
 work in Synchronet's JS
environment.  The reverse is also true.  There are many reasons for this and we
 can get into them if you
really care.

A node.js application could interact with Synchronet in various ways.  Through
a web API or some other
network service, through stdio, or even (with high probability of corrupting
things) through Synchronet's
data files.  The same could be said for a program written in just about any
other language (which is why
I said "meaningful" at the top).

Basically there's no special integration opportunity just because both use
javascript.  At best there's
an easier path to porting / sharing scripts between the two than with, say,
Python.

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