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Gmail is written entirely in Javascript? Even on the server side?
by jallmann 16y ago
Gmail is written entirely in Javascript? Even on the server side?
- sabat 16y agoI sure have my doubts. I have a friend at Google who works closely with that team; I'll ask him about it. He spends most of his day writing Java (not Javascript).
- nostrademons 16y agoThe article is frustratingly inaccurate on many, many counts.
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- tzs 16y agoWell, that sure seems to be what Adam de Boor said at USENIX. Googling for reports on his talk and the Q&A session, it sounds like someone asked him if Java would have been better, and he said that Javascript's perceived shortcomings are largely due to the implementations people see in browsers, implying that he was indeed talking about server-side Javascript. Aren't there Javascript implementations for serverside that run on the JVM?
- jallmann 16y agoRhino can be used to run JS server-side atop the JVM, although maybe by this point they've switched to V8. I still find it hard to believe they built the whole thing in JS. If it really is so, well... that's actually really, really cool.