George Moschovitis of AppengineJS fame, the Javascript port of the Google App Engine Python SDK, wrote a blog post looking at RingoJS vs NodeJS:
"Some time ago I switched from Narwhal to Ringo and never looked back. I strongly believe that Ringo is the preeminent CommonJS implementation."
"Ringo is mature, stable and crash free. Ringo is the evolution of Helma, one of the first server side JavaScript platforms (more than 10 years in development)."
"Access to the gazillion of Java libraries. There is no merit in reinventing the wheel, just reuse code from the Java ecosystem. The integration between Java and JavaScript is seamless."
"Thanks to AppengineJS you can run your Ringo applications on Google's scalable infrastructure." [actually, you can do that with Ringo out-of-the-box, but with AppengineJS you get the ported Python SDK APIs, which is nice, of course]
And his conclusion: "Stop drinking the Kool-Aid! Stop playing with toys. Engineer your application on top of a mature, conformant and compatible platform: RingoJS."
23.6.2010, 15:12