Ars Technica has an article by Kris Kowal about the CommonJS effort and the general state of Javascript outside the web browser... Indeed, jsconf.eu turned out to be quite a ServerJS party, much more so than I had expected.

"This has been a big year for JavaScript. New, fast engines have tested their legs. Libraries have matured. With the ECMAScript 5 draft proposal, the language is growing. However, the language remains largely in exile, to only be used in Web browsers. This year has marked a resurgence of efforts to make JavaScript useful outside the browser. This was patently obvious at this year's first European JavaScript conference, jsconf.eu."

4.12.2009, 18:24