Bindings for an evented language (Node.js) to an evented OS (Haiku, née OpenBeOS).
I'm gauging interest right now, so please become a watcher if you're interested. It's currently very early in development. Contributions are very welcome (see Contributing).
Have experience with:
- Node.js internals?
- The Haiku API?
- Porting languages to Haiku?
- Anything else related?
Your input, interest, and contributions are valuable and encouraged!
While reading through the Haiku documentation (more specifically, Programming the Be Operating System), I realized that the event loop structure of the Haiku API is very similar to what Node.js provides. Writing bindings for Node to interact with Haiku seems interesting. Primarily, this is a place for me to play with both Node and Haiku as I would like to learn more about both, just for fun.
Want more of a background? See the documentation on the message (event) loop, BLooper, BHandler and BMessage.
- Get Node.js to build on Haiku (an obvious prereq. :) ). See https://github.com/benjaminoakes/node
- Integrate work from GSoC 2011: https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/jalopeura
- Make a simple wrapper to allow a "hello world" GUI program to be made
Wow, you want to contribute? That's great, thanks! Please contact @benjaminoakes with any pull requests. Any and all contributions are welcome.
Getting Started:
- Download the lasest release of Haiku
- You'll probably want to run it virtualized. VirtualBox is a good option.
- Clone the repository (git's included with Haiku)
In a terminal:
git clone git://github.com/benjaminoakes/node-haiku.git