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In response to: So Programming Language Really Does Matter

@Henning, in my opinion, IBM is absolutely running an experiment, but a rather clever one. The JSF specification is over 8 years old, and SSJS has been around even longer (Rhino, for example, was orginally created in 1997, and LiveWire was released in 1996), so the underlying technology isn't exactly new. On the other hand, in many ways, XPages have allowed Domino to leapfrog most of the web development platforms that are currently trendy... a phenomenon I honestly never thought I'd see.

I found this video about SSJS on the YUI Theater site intriguing:

http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/video.php?v=isaac-ssjs

It's a short clip (at least compared to most on that site), but the implications are clear: platforms implementing SSJS are still considered leading edge, but there's strong momentum behind this, and over time, having a rock solid implementation is definitely going to be a strong selling point for any platform.

In case you're curious, Wikipedia has a listing of all known implementations of SSJS:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSJS

...and yes, there's a glaring omission. :(