Nah, don’t worry, it’ll be ok. They’ve been sponsored by Google for years. Even Facebook at one point.
It’s open source… it’s about the source being open. It’s open as in “open for business”.
The “F” in FOSDEM is silent.
It’ll be fine…
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@aral
Well, if Aral has no problem using a laptop made by Apple running an OS made by Apple and building his web development kit on top of Node.js, for which V8 — a project headed by Google, is a hard dependency*, then there is indeed nothing wrong with them 😏
* — there were attempts to port it to other JS engines, but none stuck, all of them are abandoned, therefore Node is built on Google technology
@yayacout
Not sure, could be. I was referring to Kitten, which depends on Node.js and Node in turn — on V8.
There were attempts to port it to SpiderMonkey: https://github.com/mozilla/spidernode
And ChakraCore (old Edge's JS engine): https://github.com/nodejs/node-chakracore
None came to fruition, so today the whole Node.js ecosystem is reliant on Google: if Google drops support for some platform or architecture, Node.js does it too — this is what has happened to Big Endian PowerPC.
@m0xee @aral Isn't GJS (used by GNOME extensions) based on Firefox ?