John Brewer led a hands-on JavaScript session at last night’s Silicon Valley Patterns meeting, using the Rhino JavaScript interepreter. I pair-programmed with Bill Humphries, which involved a “one types, the other eats” maneuver with his laptop to avoid getting dinner crumbs on the keyboard. We made it through the prototype-based inheritance exercises (minus the tricky extra-credit problem) just as they were shutting down the restaurant.
Rhino has been on my “check it out” list for a while now. I don’t have projects in queue that are liable to be using server-side JavaScript, but who knows.