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> With this improved performance, JavaScript started being used for things no one ever expected it to be used for, like server-side programming Oh, how quickly
by danellis 10y ago
> With this improved performance, JavaScript started being used for things no one ever expected it to be used for, like server-side programming
Oh, how quickly we forget.
- bhaak 10y agoPlease elaborate, I don't get what you are suggesting. JavaScript was hacked together in short time for the browser. You can't get any less server-side than that?
- evilpie 10y agoMight be a reference to Netscape Enterprise Server[1], which had server-side JS in 1995? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Enterprise_Server https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Enterprise_Server
- mml 10y agoLivewire, it was called, back when you bought your browser in a box at Best Buy.
- irrational 10y agoI did server-side programming in JavaScript in the late 90s. In retrospect it was a bad idea, but people were doing it. Note: this shouldn't be confused with the more recent node.js version of server-side JS.