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timme
finally. shame it's not written in the much more scalable coffeescript.
oakesm9
Give it a day and someone will have ported it ;-)
jgillich 

    five.tooSlow = function() {
        var returnIn = new Date(new Date().valueOf() + 555);

        do {} while(new Date() < returnIn);

        return five();
    };
Finally a way to escape callback hell. I think somebody should write a jQuery.ajax plugin that calls the function repeatedly until a request is finished.
sfeng
That actually wouldn't work, as the response from the request would never be processed while you were looping.

You can make synchronous requests already though:

    req = new XMLHttpRequest
    req.open("some/url", "GET", false);
    req.send()
mooreds
I'm a little disappointed the test doesn't verify correctness addition, subtraction, multiplication or division.

Sigh. I suppose I'll have to submit an issue and pull request.

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weddpros
Who's gonna write Flappy Five in JS?
filearts
Thanks for sharing, but in my app I really need five to be six. If you could address this one small issue I'm sure your lib would see much more use.
morley
var six = five() + five() / five();
Evgeniuz
var six = function() { return five() + five() / five(); }

Some people may rely on that functionality.

joezo
You can get 6 with `(five() + (five()/five()))`
andrey-p
Whoah. The Mongolian word for "five" means "ceiling" in Bulgarian.
neals
Wake up sheeple!
sramsay
But what good is a five overcomplication library without overly complicated documentation?
dclowd9901
Really makes me wish you could invoke instance methods on numbers (ala 5.amIFive())
Softcadbury
You can :)

Number.prototype.amIFive = function(){ return this.valueOf() == 5; }

5..amIFive();

dclowd9901
Ah, so you have to have two dots... I suppose the first one denotes the floating point value, and the second denotes the prototype accessor. Very clever.
hacliff
This can't be right, nowhere near enough dependencies
talles
Can't wait until it reach version... 5
assertnotnull
This will be ported to GWT 5.5.0 in a FiveLabel. It would fit nicely.
zaptheimpaler
I poked around at the source code and this really doesn't seem to be web scale at all. Please look into mongodb to store the five, maybe throw in Redis to cache five in memory, and consider using a real-time processing framework like Storm to implement mapping and reducing five.

Until then I'm afraid this is just far too slow to consider using seriously in my web-scale project. This probably cant even handle 100M+ requests/second. Right now, its just me and grandma so I need 2 requests/sec, but this really doesn't seem scalable.

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