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mutagen on Feb 6, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: The History of Node.js

Didn't JavaScript start as Netscape's LiveScript intended to run on the Netscape web server? So more like it is coming full circle.

edit: random link sort of supporting what I thought I remembered http://www.findmeat.org/tutorials/javascript/x486110.htm

drumdance on Feb 7, 2012 [–]

Yes! I remember waaaay back then thinking about starting a company that would develop a client side scrpting language like Visual Basic. But then Netscape started talking about LiveScript and I figured they'd be too hard to displace.

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