Just curious to know why there is no Javascript on JVM/CLR (compile Javascript to vm bytecodes)? Is it possible at all? Node.js seems to be the only option to run Javascript server side.
There's Rhino, but AFAIK it's much slower than V8. <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/" rel="nofollow">http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/</a> <a href="http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/07/rhino-invokedynamic" rel="nofollow">http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/07/rhino-invokedynamic</a><p>Nashorn and dyn.js are some immature but promising implementations. <a href="http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/10/dynjs" rel="nofollow">http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/10/dynjs</a>