From: Intransition <transfire@...>
Date: 2010-05-28T01:41:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby as Client Side Language in Web Browser (replacing JS)



On May 27, 10:45 am, "Simone R." <k5...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I was thinking about the old days when IE was able to execute script
> both in JS and VB.
>
> Do you think can be a good idea to include in a web browser a Ruby VM to
> execute client side script written in ruby?

Yes, but on the other hand Javascript is pretty good language in it's
own right. The problem it has, where Ruby shines, is that it's syntax
is a little too crufty and it lacks much of the functionality Ruby
provides out of the box. In that vain, check out CoffeeScript.