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How was that a great guess? Certainly things could change, but very very very few people are doing server side JS right now. That could change, but I'm still pretty skeptical. Node.js (if that's what you're thinking of) is still very much in the experimental stage.

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He doesn't say it will be ubiquitous in that timeframe. You'd have to be pretty crazy to think that. He means it will arrive. Which is correct. The thing is, javascript is what's available in all devices. And it's a pretty nice language.

it's also showing up in other things. I believe KDE is using it as the primary scripting language for their stuff. Apple has dipped it's toe in that water with the dashboard widgets. etc

Another good example is Google using it for their scripting project for Google Docs. Works using Rhino on the JVM.

I used to work on this project. It's pretty rad from a tech standpoint.

A couple of IBM/Tivoli products (TDI and TAM ESSO) use it as the scripting language as well.

Incidentally, i actually am doing server side javascript, but on Rhino, instead of node. I'm certain that Stevey meant Rhino, rather than node when he wrote that particular blog post.

Rhino makes sense given "Rule #5: The Kitchen Sink" and "Rule #6: Multi-Platform."

he definitely meant Rhino, as in Rhino on Rails http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/06/rhino-on-rails.html

This coming from the guy who used to work on Google Apps Script.

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