Re: IBM announces new language environment - Node.js for i

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Excellent news!

I forget - is Python officially supported by IBM? John Y.?

There is, of course, also Perl. Not officially supported, is it? But it 
does work, IIRC.

Vern

On 10/7/2014 8:19 AM, Nathan Andelin wrote:
> Link to the announcement:
>
> http://ibm.co/1EoKAcU
>
> "Node.js is a platform built on Google Chrome JavaScript™ run time for
> server-side and networking applications. It is enabled on IBM i and shipped
> as part of the licensed program 5770-DG1. Besides the core functions of
> node.js, IBM i node.js also offers extensions to operate DB2 for i and gain
> access to native IBM i objects such as programs, commands, data queues,
> data areas, spool files, user spaces, jobs, system values, environment
> values, and more."
>
> Node.js is especially known for its support for I/O streaming, whether that
> be the local file system, sockets, creating lightweight HTTP servers and
> HTTP clients, encryption, zip and unzip, and other string handling.
>
> How many language environments does that make?
>
> 1. ILE (RPG, Cobol, C, CL, REXX).
> 2. SQL & SQL DDL.
> 3. Java.
> 4. PHP.
> 5. Python.
> 6. Power Ruby and Rails.
> 7. Node.js