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Steve’s best prediction for me has always been his bet on JS in ‘The Next Big Language’: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.co.uk/2007/02/next-big-language.... . This is pre-V8 but post- open sourcing of Tamarin.

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I remember being very intrigued by the article back in the day and I revisited it at least twice to find out if steve ever confirmed what language he was writing about.

Today people seem to take for granted that the NBL was in fact javascript, but I still cannot find any source for this.

Does anyone know more and can point me in the right direction?

OK, fair enough, but there aren’t any other obvious contenders that fit his criteria. Also, ES4 was in development at the time and would have been a major overhaul to the language (something we’re now getting in ES6).

Maybe I am taking it for granted though…

I've seen video of a talk in which Yegge says, in so many words, that "NBL is Javascript". Google suggests it was a talk at OSCON 2007, which I can't easily check right now.

Citation from the past: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2344077

Thanks a lot! Exactly what I was looking for.

He gave a talk not long after the initial post where he said something to the effect of 'You guys, NBL is obviously JavaScript!" I think I saw it on YouTube at the time, not sure if it is still available.

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