Do you expect Javascript to become widely used outside the browser? [closed]

Question

With all the magic you can do in today's browser I wonder if Javascript will become much more prominent on the server side or as a viable alternative for application programming. I ask this because I have poked around with many programming languages except Javascript. Maybe it's time to dive into it, before everybody is wanting and it's me still being clueless.

Therefore, do you think Javascript will even get bigger?

Answer 1

It's already widely used as a scripting language. I've heard that photoshop is scripted with it. Also, flash's actionscript is javascript.

It's the cool little language, exactly the one you want for those cases. People use it all over - I've heard it was using in the call center software, for example.

It can be useful in server programming, too. We're waiting for Steve Yegge's Rhino on Rails.

And if you take couchdb, webapp in rhino, javascript in browser and e4x-based templating engine, you'll get a webapp stack in pure javascript, which is kind of fun!

Answer 2

It's already bigger than you think, since ActionScript is very heavily based on JavaScript and is used by a ton of developers.

Personally, I would bet on JavaScript to become more and more widely adopted in future frameworks so that web developers can easily acclimate to new environments; especially frameworks that want to deliver applications via the cloud...