Are there any plans for a native windows version of NodeJs?

Question

I'm wondering if anyone has any information or speculation as to when or if there will be a native windows version/port of Node.js.

Answer 1

There is an ongoing effort to provide a mingw port of Node.js. Version 0.3.6+ can be build that way.

However that is still experimental and anything but ready for more than quick and dirty development. Even in case this version matures, I suppose that it will always lag behind the *nix versions, mainly due to the fact that the event loop implementations that Node uses were originally written for those systems and APIs.

The windows version may become stable for development at some point in the future, but I hardly doubt it will ever be usable for production.

July 2011 Update:

#nodejs v0.5.1 is the first to ship with an official Windows executable. We're hoping to get some good feedback.

Microsoft has officially gotten involved with joyent in making node.js work natively on windows.