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zach on June 25, 2007 | parent | context | favorite | on: John Lam on Software: Steve Yegge ported Rails to ...

What? Wow. What?!

Okay, that sounds great, but what a bureaucratic-sounding backstory. Seriously, that sounds like what happens in Soviet Russia: languages program you!

motoko on June 25, 2007 [–]

No, it's because if Javascript is both the language you write client code AND server code, it could be huge.

jamongkad on June 27, 2007 | [–]

Agreed which could possibly pave the way for offline apps.

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