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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