Re: predicting the Rise of JavaScript, it&#x27;s a lot easier to be right if you know about V8 a year before public release. From &quot;Rule #3: Performance&quot; on <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;steve-yegge.blogspot.com&#x2F;2007&#x2F;02&#x2F;next-big-language.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;steve-yegge.blogspot.com&#x2F;2007&#x2F;02&#x2F;next-big-language.ht...</a>:<p><i>Generally speaking, NBL will have to have a much greater focus on performance than so-called &quot;scripting languages&quot; have had in the past. I mean, if it&#x27;s really the Next Big Thing, it&#x27;ll have to run on mobile devices, game platforms, and all sorts of other hardware-constrained devices.
It sounds impossible, I know. But it&#x27;s not. Those compiler writers are a tricky bunch, and they have decades of experience. A bunch of them got together and did a lot of head-scratching over NBL, and the result is going to perform quite nicely.</i>