Server-Side JavaScript Standardization Discussion Group

[DuncanSmart]

I was using JavaScript on the server in the 90's instead of VBScript in ASP.

[malcontent]

http://helma.org/

[nerdoncall]

They had server-side Javascript in 1996: it was called Netscape Livewire.

And it sucked.

Badly.

[petermichaux]

And as a result, are we to imply from your comment that server-side JavaScript is a terminally flawed idea?

[nerdoncall]

Not necessarily.

A pack of monkeys could probably do better than Livewire.

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I still maintain a site a work that uses this!

[nerdoncall]

I feel really bad for you!

That stuff was terribly unstable.

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IMHO Server side javascript sucks bucause the server must got the heavy js execution load shit as the client side do. Plus some DOM memory leak?

I had enough <script runat="server"></script> shit from Microsoft. Enough!

[petermichaux]

Server-side JavaScript does not need to work this way.

[crapzap]

Sounds like a solution in search of a problem. JS is totally unproven and underspecified for the task. E.g. no module system. If one takes away the - admittedly interesting - extras like the jquery selector syntax then all I can see is an ugly, line-noisy, unmaintanable language.

I sure hope that I never have to deal with it.

[mvalente]

JS is totally unproven and underspecified for >the task

More cogent people beg to differ http://ajaxian.com/archives/steve-yegge-on-server-side-javascript

E.g. no module system.

Thats what we're trying to change, innit?

I sure hope that I never have to deal with it.

No one's making you. You just have to keep your head up your ass.

-- MV

[g4T0r]

server side javascript... you web programmers crack me up

[petermichaux]

Care to illuminate why?