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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.

"We took [Nodyn] as far as we could go," he said, adding that without npm, it was difficult for Nodyn to gain traction, as the third-party modules are critical. "The npm JS modules don't necessarily all work in that JVM environment. So it makes it a bit tricky to build up the community and the traction."

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