Last year, Steve Yegge
posted about Rhino
on Rails, his port of Ruby on Rails to the JavaScript language on the Rhino runtime. It garnered a slew of interest,
and I have been wanting to talk to him in more detail about the project.
Fortunately, I happened to be at the Google Kirkland office and Steve graciously had time
to spend talking about the framework. Steve is an entertaining chap, and manages to keep you
interested with long
blog entries, and did the same as I chatted with him.
In the
conversation we cover the germination of the project, why Steve went ahead with the port, the
side effects of JavaScript on the server, how Rhino will be implementing JavaScript 2 /
ECMAScript 4 (with Google committing engineers to the project), the intent to open source RnR,
and random thoughts from a language geek.
Give it a watch, and let us
know if there are any other questions you would have liked to ask
