<story><title>The Next Big Language</title><url>http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/02/next-big-language.html?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>david927</author><text>Ahh... I think we all miss Big Stevey.  He role was never replaced and it&apos;s a shame for our entire community.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m glad this was posted.  It was written four years ago (Feb. 2007), and his quote is, &quot;[The NBL] is going to arrive very soon (timeline: 18-24 months ...)&quot;  He later gave away that he was thinking the NBL was to be server-side Javascript.  You have to hand it to him; that was a great guess, even if the timeline was off.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>megaduck</author><text>Looking at Yegge&apos;s projects, I think NBL was just &quot;javascript&quot;.  The first big one was a rails clone on Rhino, which he talked about but never released (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QD9XQm_Jd4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QD9XQm_Jd4&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;p&gt;After that, he started building a system for extending emacs with JS, named &quot;ejacs&quot;.  It never got fully baked, but the effort produced the very nice js2-mode.  Details here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/11/ejacs-javascript-interpreter-for-emacs.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/11/ejacs-javascript-int...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;So, I think NBL was just &quot;Javascript&quot;. Awesome call.  Despite the problems with the standards process, JS has &lt;i&gt;exploded&lt;/i&gt; in popularity over the past three years.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Next Big Language</title><url>http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/02/next-big-language.html?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>david927</author><text>Ahh... I think we all miss Big Stevey.  He role was never replaced and it&apos;s a shame for our entire community.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m glad this was posted.  It was written four years ago (Feb. 2007), and his quote is, &quot;[The NBL] is going to arrive very soon (timeline: 18-24 months ...)&quot;  He later gave away that he was thinking the NBL was to be server-side Javascript.  You have to hand it to him; that was a great guess, even if the timeline was off.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rryyan</author><text>Maybe you&apos;re already aware of this, but a few months ago he started occasionally posting again -- here&apos;s his &quot;I&apos;m back&quot; post: &lt;a href=&quot;http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2010/07/blogger-finger.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2010/07/blogger-finger.html&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;p&gt;That said, I miss his longer-form and more frequent posts too.</text></comment>