QtScript is based on ECMAScript primarily so is again a sibling rather than a child of javascript. Unityscript is only very very loosely based on JS. And regardless, they're
still very niche uses.
As I said, I don't think JS on the server is a bad idea, just a stupid one. PHP works fine. If you don't like that then Ruby or Python work fine too. If you don't like that then Perl works fine. If you're a masochist then there's server side java. If you feel the need to pay more money to people then there's all the MS server side stuff. And there is of course coldfusion, which isn't very good.
Of course choice is good - the more the merrier. Except that in order to be useful a language needs to be installed when I buy a webserver. Or on my clients' webservers which they already tend to have which tend to be the most default setup imaginable. When server side JS is stable, secure and ubiquitous enough to be in those setups then I will
begin to become interested. Until then I choose to dismiss it as the prattling of people who fetishise difference for the sake of difference.
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And that's why I'm arguing with you - just because 99.9% of JS involves the DOM doesn't mean that JS is tied to it.
It kinda does, yeah. Like if we're having a discussion about the uses of petrol and you want to talk only about lawnmowers and chainsaws and ignore cars.
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t's only a niche at the moment, but it's a growing one, and in a few more years it'll probably be as popular off the DOM as on it.
No, it won't. It'll have a short lived ascendancy while it's trendy and then people will forget about it. Sure it will be included more often as a choice of interpreted languages in stuff like Qt - and that's a good thing. But it won't go further than that. It's not going to
usurp all the other choices and become pre-eminent. If anything was going to do that it would be good old python. It's primary use will remain client-side web stuff for the foreseeable future (increasingly so with html5).
Chrome ending up with a bigger market share than FF is the very definition of killing it off. Mozilla will never die, few large open source projects ever completely die. But when it's down to under 10% share it'll be irrelevant as, frankly, it deserves to be. It was a great browser for a while but then they started making some very odd decisions and let Google in the back door. Which is a shame because I'd rather have a genuinely free/open project be on top.