April 20, 2011 — Mozilla is building its own version of Node.js – the increasingly popular open source platform for coding server-side applications with JavaScript – moving Node from Google’s V8 JavaScript engine to its own SpiderMonkey engine.
“We think V8 is great and the fact that Node has become so widely used is a testament to that. But we also think there’s room for competition here. Browser-based competition is old-hat. Let’s move this battle to the servers,” Mozilla man Paul O’Shannessy wrote in a recent blog post. Read More
