If JavaScript Were Such A Great Language ...
... why aren't its extra-web-browser versions being used widely.
Here's my observation: If people wanted to, they can use JavaScript for:
- Windows shell scripting (JScript Windows scripting host)
- General purpose Windows/.NET programming (JScript.NET)
- General purpose dynamic language programming for the JVM (Rhino)
- General purpose Unix shell scripting (xpcshell)
- Scripting applications (for C++, Java, .NET applications through one of the above technologies)
All of the above technologies have existed for at least five years, some even ten. But if people are using JavaScript for non-web programmings, they are not talking about it.
Something to think about on a Monday morning.