On 12/13/2011 08:44 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> Rather, I think the point is that embedded Javascript is *extremely*
> popular, lots and
> lots of people are supporting it, and we ought to seriously consider
> doing the same. It's hard to think of another PL that we could add
> that would give us anywhere near the bang for the buck that Javascript
> would.
>
Quite. I hate Javascript with a passion, wish it would just go away and
stop meddling with my life. And even with that context, I think in-core
PL/V8 would be a huge advocacy win. PostgreSQL has this great
developer-oriented PL interface, it just doesn't work out of the box
with any of the "pop" languages right now.
Personal story on this. When my book came out, I was trying to take the
#1 spot on Packt's bestseller list, even if it was just for a day.
Never made it higher than #2. The #1 spot the whole time was "jQuery
1.4 Reference Guide", discussing the most popular JavaScript library out
there. And you know what? Over a year later, it's *still there*. At
no point did it over drop out of that top spot. The number of people
who would consider server-side programming suddenly feasible if PL/V8
were easy to do is orders of magnitude larger than the current
PostgreSQL community.
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