I'm not sure what to make of this one from the Googleplex, it's certainly food for thought but it seems that Steve Yegge at Google has been working on a RoR port to Javascript called Rhino on Rails. Yup you read that right, Javascript on Rails!!
More details here...
Steve has actually written a follow up post on the article here...
I'd need to see this in action to make a rational judgement, but from a
practical standpoint if he can get it into byte code and using the JVM, perf
shouldn't be an issue, and the language is certainly dynamic. It seems
a little pie in the sky at the moment, but hey you never know,
especially when the Googlers are involved.
Could YOU see yourself building server applications in Javascript? Anyone know of any projects to get Javascript running on the DLR?
Edit: Actually I was reading Jim Hugunin's blog and re-read this post. Seems Javascript is supported on the DLR which I didn't realise in Silverlight 1.1(I think I was too excited about the c# support to notice).
Further Edit: My interest was peeked by this and some further googling reveled this post by Michael Schwartz which quotes Jim who alludes to poor peformance in 1.1.