Red Hat ditches effort to port Node.js to Java

Sometimes, the best intentions just don't work out.
Such is the case with Red Hat-sponsored Nodyn, an open source effort intended to port the Node.js server-side JavaScript platform to the Java Virtual Machine, bringing Java's rich set of tooling to Node. The project is no longer in active development due to an inability to make the popular JavaScript extensions, npm, work with it, said Mícheál Ó Foghlú, CTO of Red Hat Mobile.[ See InfoWorld's full coverage of Java a