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Netscape had a line of web servers supporting server-side JavaScript. But who in their right mind would use JavaScript on the server side?

• pmontra 3y ago
  They were very slow even compared to the Java of that age.
• fuzztester 3y ago
  Yes, it was called Netscape Application Server. They changed the product line name later, to IPlanet Application Server, IIRC. Modules written in JavaScript and run on the server were called AppLogics (bad name, IMO).
• peteri 3y ago
  As did Microsoft with ASP (your choice was VBScript or JScript for a scripting language)
  • leptons 3y ago
    JScript still runs in modern Microsoft servers. I still have one site running with ASP.NET/JScript.
• ttepasse 3y ago
  Back in 2000 there was a the Helma Object Publisher, a web application framework, written in Java, based on Netscape’s Rhino, afair, and enabling serverside Javascript including a form of ORM which mapped the db into JS objects. Antville, for a time the biggest austro-german blogging community, was and I think still is written in it. https://github.com/antville/helma https://github.com/antville/helma