Comments on: Open, Loving, Just Workingness: The Smart Platform and Javascript

By: Simon Wardley

Simon Wardley — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 13:43:32 +0000

Excellent article and a very smart acquisition. I’m glad that the three rules have been useful.

JavaScript is the natural language for the cloud, it’s been existing in a sandboxed virtual container (the browser) for over a decade. It’s had to use services (for data persistency, file access etc), its event messaging is the internet. If the Cloud is the Internet OS, then JavaScript is its language (nothing else comes to close to natural fit and breadth).

Anyway, excellent acquisition. You have something with huge potential. Knowing that James is working with such good people also make me happy.

By: Jason A. Hoffman

Jason A. Hoffman — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:54:00 +0000

Welcome to the light of day Bryan.

By: Gregg Wyland

Gregg Wyland — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:48:30 +0000

Glad to see others thinking the same way about JavaScript. We have used JavaScript on the server-side to build applications on the Axiom Stack framework for a few years. Our Director of Development is speaking about Axiom Stack at the JSConf 2009 in April. Hope to see you there!

By: Bryan Cantrill

Bryan Cantrill — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:30:48 +0000

Yes, this reminds me of the moment that I realized that I love — yes, love — JavaScript. (I felt like a 19th century homosexual, with desires so far out of the mainstream thinking that I had to keep them strictly to myself.) I believe that JavaScript is the dynamic language that K&R would have intended — though that might just be a way of rationalizing the perverse fact that I divide my days between implementing in C and JavaScript… Incidentally, if anyone is curious about our rationale for implementing our appliance shell in JavaScript, I discuss that here

By: Sam Johnston

Sam Johnston — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:17:29 +0000

I’m rapidly warming to JavaScript in cloud contexts. I’ve been writing it for a dozen years or so and see great benefit in doing away with the friction between languages on the client and server side.

Good to see ReasonablySmart getting to see the light of day in a production sense.

Sam

By: Jason A. Hoffman

Jason A. Hoffman — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:33:24 +0000

Thank you Chris. Yes, I’m going to check our calendars and see if James and I can make it.

By: Chris Williams

Chris Williams — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:23:04 +0000

Great article about the importance and precariousness of the language JavaScript and building a platform for its wide adoption without the cumbersomeness of the DOM. Have you looked into attending JSConf 2009 and presenting the Open platform during the Track B sessions? It would be a great opportunity to collaborate with other JS leaders and developers. Hope to see you there, great article.

By: Chris Williams

Chris Williams — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:22:32 +0000

Great article about the importance and precariousness of the language JavaScript and building a platform for its wide adoption without the cumbersomeness of the DOM. Have you looked into attending JSConf 2009 http://www.jsconf2009.com and presenting the Open platform during the Track B sessions? It would be a great opportunity to collaborate with other JS leaders and developers.

Hope to see you there, great article.