If there were a browser implementation of C, would you call C "not serious"? Probably not, because there is a C standard, and you can write standalone applications in C, and we all love good tools for debugging. Download Mozilla Rhino (not the limited one in Java 6) and have a look around. I wrote a standalone web server in 100 lines of JavaScript that is executed from the command line as "java -jar js.jar server.js". There's also a debugger that is better than any python debugger I have found, documented at http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/debugger.html. If you don't like the JVM, you can also write standalone applications using Mozilla XULRunner.
JavaScript continues to be the most misunderstood language.
Wow, that shows great insight
If there were a browser implementation of C, would you call C "not serious"? Probably not, because there is a C standard, and you can write standalone applications in C, and we all love good tools for debugging. Download Mozilla Rhino (not the limited one in Java 6) and have a look around. I wrote a standalone web server in 100 lines of JavaScript that is executed from the command line as "java -jar js.jar server.js". There's also a debugger that is better than any python debugger I have found, documented at http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/debugger.html. If you don't like the JVM, you can also write standalone applications using Mozilla XULRunner.
JavaScript continues to be the most misunderstood language.