Lonely Lion » Ruby http://weblog.lonelylion.com Chris McAvoy likes kites Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:52:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Server Side Javascript http://weblog.lonelylion.com/2009/04/09/server-side-javascript/ http://weblog.lonelylion.com/2009/04/09/server-side-javascript/#comments Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:09:41 +0000 Chris http://weblog.lonelylion.com/?p=814 Remember that whole Appengine got the JVM link I posted yesterday?  I forgot to add one thing.  Rhino is on that list.  Meaning, you can write really awesome Javascript applications on the Google-server.  In Ted Leung’s Pycon talk he specifically points out the performance gains that several big companies have baked into Javascript, how Javascript is one of the most “known” languages, and how Python & Ruby folks should know that as soon as Javascript becomes an accepted server side language, they’re probably going to have to join or die.

Obviously, I’m paraphrasing.

That said, picture Ted as a crazy prophet saying that when the sky rains blood, it means the end of Python.  Then picture Google Appengine raining blood.  See where this is going?  Google totally released server side javascript on Tuesday.  The prophecy is coming true!

(If you watch the video, feel free to skip over the Q&A period, in which I ask a batshit crazy question and blame democracy for the inability of Python to feed more families.)

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Although the majority of the documentation talks about the release of Java for Appengine, there’s an important distinction to make…they reallly released the JVM for Appengine, as evidenced by this nice post about which JVM languages will work on Appengine.

So, really, in one swoop, they released Jython, JRuby, Scala, Javascript, and Clojure. That’s pretty slick.

Sure Java is arguably way less nice than Python and Ruby, but the JVM is pretty great. Languages that target it as a platform open up a lot of otherwise closed Enterprise doors. If you want to write Python or Ruby as your day-job, you should really start paying attention to the JVM.

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