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> Node.js isn't a framework. What about comparing apples with apples?

What would you call it? Because it's not a language either. JavaScript is the language.

It's a runtime for JavaScript. It's definitely not a framework.

V8 is the runtime.

Er, I'm far, far from a JS expert let alone V8, but I thought V8 does the compilation to machine code and Node serves as the process containing the thread the program is running on, making Node the runtime, and V8 the engine.

That and nodejs.org calls it a runtime built on V8 :P

Evidently, "framework" suffers from semantic overload here. The article itself says that "Node.js suffers from fragmentation with a half dozen frameworks competing".

So how would we describe Node.js in this sense? It's not a framework, and it's not a language.

Platform?

I'm going to start calling it a doohicky.

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