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There was also Rhino in the Java land (I remember working with Helma before Node came out), JScript on IIS, some projects embedding SpiderMonkey. I think node.

by pawelk 9y ago

There was also Rhino in the Java land (I remember working with Helma before Node came out), JScript on IIS, some projects embedding SpiderMonkey. I think node.js finally made server-side JS take off because 1) it was based on V8 which was the new, performance-oriented JS engine powering Chrome, and 2) it was self-contained (i.e. didn't rely on Java on one hand, wasn't just a scripting layer of something larger on the other).

jdc0589 9y ago
> some projects embedding SpiderMonkey yea, I remember the woes of building CouchDB from source....about half the issues generally seemed to be SpiderMonkey related.
- pawelk 9y ago
  On the other hand you could use E4X in CouchDB views, which was almost like JSX, but native.