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I am finding that Ruby is "my style" of programming language for many tasks. One that would be very well suited to Ruby, would be driving the browser VM, what we end up using JavaScript for now.
Ruby would be ideal for this task IMO, and I wonder if anyone has created an extension for Firefox at least. It would be hard to practically deploy with Ruby, until there was enough of an uptake of course... but you can still dream.
One of the problems to overcome is the fact that now, we don't really modularize our web scripting code a lot. The most we do is have seperate .js files which encapsulate logic.
What if we had a mechanism in which the script could contain metadata which would look like dependencies in Maven.
E.g.
"My script needs My::Module version 2.4, and ActiveRecord 1.0, and ...."
Then there could be a local repo which would allow us to share code. Something like this would change the way we think about web scripting on the client, and move from a 'hacker' perspective, to something more mature. Of course, we would have to have a sandbox-like system to stop people from doing Bad Things.
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