Are there any plans to maintain this project in long term?

[opensourcegeek]

I would like to know whether this project will be supported in long term. It says experimental, so just wondering. I'd like to use node + socket io on managed VM and use other services(like memcache etc) through node as well. If this is experimental and won't be maintained moving forward I wouldn't probably use this library.

[rrch]

The experimental designation is due to the fact that it's a custom runtime and doesn't have the same level of support or documentation as the primary runtimes, like Java and Python. This said, it uses the same mechanisms underneath as the supported runtimes and we've been keeping it running through the changes during the pre-beta stage of Managed VMs, so I wouldn't be too worried.

Also, I think any dependencies that your app may have on this library would be pretty simple to understand and eventually replace. Thankfully node.js is very transparent in this respect.