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[Jay Pipes <jaypipes@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 05/25/2012 08:41 AM, Simon G. wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I don't want to be rude, but fast research about point *3c* and sockets
> => PyPi search
> <http://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=search&term=socket.io&submit=search>
>
>   * http://pypi.python.org/pypi/SocketTornad.IO/
>   * http://pypi.python.org/pypi/TornadIO2/0.0.3 ,
>     https://github.com/MrJoes/tornadio2
>   * http://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-socketio/0.3.3
>   * http://mrjoes.github.com/2011/12/15/sockjs-bench.html
>
> How mature are those projects? I don't know. I'm not an expert in
> python. I'm just trying to find alternatives to Node.js if almost
> everything is in python. I'm just testing Openstack and right now I'm
> trying to add something to nova, but I really like horizon and if it's
> possible, I'd like to avoid node.js. I'm not a fan of this technology
> even if it's popular and fast, because I just have some doubts about
> Javascript and its maintainability.

Hi Simon,

socket.io is a Javascript library :) 3 of the 4 projects you reference 
above use socket.io.

Best,
-jay