June 9, 2011 — At some point, when nobody was looking, JavaScript evolved from humble beginnings to become an important and full-fledged development language.
James Duncan (@jamesaduncan), the chief architect at Joyent, is one of the people who’s now putting JavaScript in unexpected places. In his case, it’s using JavaScript as a web server development language through the Node.js platform.
In the following interview, Duncan shares his thoughts on JavaScript’s growth and how we came to depend so heavily on the language. Read More