Interview with Steve Yegge on Rhino on Rails and more

Google for DevelopersCited 3× on HN, 2008–2011

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interview · intermediate · 2008–2011 on HN

Steve Yegge is interviewed at Google's Kirkland office about the birth, growth and future of his Rhino on Rails project, a Rails clone on the Rhino JavaScript engine, and other web development topics.

Mentioned mainly as the place to hear Yegge discuss Rhino on Rails, a project that was never released.

3 comments from Hacker News

@megaduck2011-01 · in “The Next Big Language”

Looking at Yegge's projects, I think NBL was just "javascript". The first big one was a rails clone on Rhino, which he talked about but never released ( ▶ this video ). After that, he started building a system for extending emacs with JS, named "ejacs". It never got fully baked, but the effort produced the very nice js2-mode. Details here: link So, I think NBL was just "Javascript". Awesome call. Despite the problems with the standards process, JS has exploded in popularity over the past three years.

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@riprock2010-07 · in “Blogger Finger”

I wonder what happened to his Rhino on Rails project...I would love to hear a follow up on that. link ▶ this video (2008)

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@brooksbp2008-05 · in “Ask YC: Django vs Ruby on Rails”

+1 Obviously haven't read much Yegge when making statements like that. Ontop of the above defense, there's a video on Youtube... ▶ this video

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