Node.js Foundation Advances Virtual Machine Neutrality

At a Node.js Interactive North America event today, the Node.js Foundation took a significant step toward achieving the goal of virtual machine neutrality by demonstrating a proof of concept implementation of a Node.js API Stable Module Application Programming Interface (NAPI) that makes it possible to deploy Node.js applications on top of multiple types of virtual machines.Based on JavaScript, Node.js applications today can already run on top of multiple virtual machines. But porting applications between them requires significant work on the part of the developer. Todd Moore, vice president of open technology at IBM, says NAPI is intended to allow IT vendors to continue to innovate at the virtual machine level in a way that doesn’t disrupt Node.js applications.