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Re:What Blocks Ruby and Python from Getting to JavaScript V8... by iamvfl on Friday January 16, 2015 @11:47PM (#8903441)
Not all JavaScript runs in the browser
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Re:What Blocks Ruby and Python from Getting to JavaScript V8... by _delirium on Saturday January 17, 2015 @05:28AM (#8904032)
It mostly did before V8 was created. A few people ran JS outside the browser using Mozilla's Rhino, but it wasn't very common. Nodejs probably was the first widely adopted platform for non-browser JS, and it was built on V8 after V8 already existed. So I believe historically server-side JS did not drive JS performance.
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Re:What Blocks Ruby and Python from Getting to JavaScript V8... by SixSigma on Saturday January 17, 2015 @12:21PM (#8904821)
It should be mentioned that Microsoft has had server side Javascript (well, Jscript) running on IIS since 1997. I used to write data driven websites in it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JScript

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Re:What Blocks Ruby and Python from Getting to JavaScript V8... by ksherlock on Saturday January 17, 2015 @07:44PM (#8906158)
and Windows Script Host (wscript/cscript).
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