[Qt-interest] node.js electrifying the javascript world - how about a Qt version?

Andrew Stuart andrew.stuart at flatraterecruitment.com.au
Sat May 29 11:20:47 CEST 2010


node.js is an event driven javascript web server with extremely high  
performance that is electrifying the javascript and web development  
world.

http://nodejs.org/
http://jsconf.eu/2009/video_nodejs_by_ryan_dahl.html

The thing is, it's built using Google V8 Javascript engine.

I'd love to see an equivalent built using qt and the webkit/ 
squirrelfish javascript engine.

It seems that Qt would be extremely well suited to building an  
equivalent to node.js and would probably be better at certain things.   
For example node.js does not support gzip compressed HTTP responses  
nor does it support HTTPS.  Surely a Qt based version of the same  
concept would make it easy to implement such features?

Anyone out there have any interest in implementing a Qt/Webkit based  
version of node.js?  I don;t have the skills to do it but I'd love to  
see the results of someone smarter than I making it happen.

Thoughts or comments anyone?  Would this be a hard thing to implement  
in Qt?

Andrew



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