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Interview with Steve Yegge on Rhino on Rails and more

Google for Developers · 34.2K views · 2008-01-29 · 25:17

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Overview

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.

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

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2008–2011

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megaduck · 2011-01 · Reference

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.

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riprock · 2010-07 · Reference

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

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brooksbp · 2008-05 · Reference

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

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