Interview with Steve Yegge on Rhino on Rails and more

Google for Developers0 HN recommenders · 2008–2011
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Steve Yegge is interviewed at Google's Kirkland office about the birth, growth and future of his Rhino on Rails project, a Rails clone on the Rhino JavaScript engine, and other web development topics.

Mentioned mainly as the place to hear Yegge discuss Rhino on Rails, a project that was never released.

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3 comments from Hacker News

@brooksbp2008 · in “Ask YC: Django vs Ruby on Rails”

+1 Obviously haven't read much Yegge when making statements like that. Ontop of the above defense, there's a video on Youtube... [VIDEO]

@riprock2010 · in “Blogger Finger”

I wonder what happened to his Rhino on Rails project...I would love to hear a follow up on that. [LINK] [VIDEO] (2008)

@megaduck2011 · in “The Next Big Language”

Looking at Yegge's projects, I think NBL was just "javascript". The first big one was a rails clone on Rhino, which he talked about but never released ( [VIDEO] ). After that, he started building a system for extending emacs with JS, named "ejacs". It never got fully baked, but the effort produced the very nice js2-mode. Details here: [LINK] So, I think NBL was just "Javascript". Awesome call. Despite the problems with the standards process, JS has exploded in popularity over the past three years.