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> Javascript was browser only until 2010 Depending on how you look at it you are at least a decade too late: we Java folks had the Rhino Javascript engine back
by eitland 6y ago
> Javascript was browser only until 2010
Depending on how you look at it you are at least a decade too late: we Java folks had the Rhino Javascript engine back in the late 1990ies, and it had an interpreted mode since 1998: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhino_(JavaScript_engine) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhino_(JavaScript_engine)
I think it is even mentioned in the Javascript in a Nutshell book by David Flanagan (I haven't read it since then but I studied that book as I wrote a map rendering system in Javascript back in school in 2005.)
- ricardobeat 6y agoTrue, I played with Rhino, Jack / JSGI early on, and did a couple projects with Aptana Jaxer around 2009. It was not really an option most developers would even consider, though. Node came out in 2009, and writing server-side JS was still a fringe practice for a couple more years, so 2010 is me being generous to avoid comments on the exact timeline ;) It really picked up mainstream adoption around 2011-2012.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 6y agoWas Rhino ever anything other than a minefield that you were essentially pigeonholed into using for compatibility reasons or something similar? I have used it before but only because we had specific technical requirements that demanded we run Javascript on a server-side JVM implementation.