I've nabble-ized the Sun Labs Lively Kernel mail list:
http://n2.nabble.com/Sun-Labs-Lively-Kernel-f2540552.html
These folks have built a smalltalk-like environment entirely in
javascript!
http://research.sun.com/projects/lively/index.xhtml
Definitely still beta, but hard to believe its possible at all!
This is yet another example of javascript becoming a real power in the
computing world, based mainly on its ubiquity .. but also on its
hidden sophistication as a language itself (see http://tinyurl.com/df46ru)
.
We're looking at javascript outside of the browser, even as a server
(server side javascript .. SSJS) and for scripting on the desktop
etc. Think of an agent system made up of all the browsers currently
running in the world!
-- Owen
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