Re: JSON for PG 9.2

On 12/13/2011 08:44 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> Rather, I think the point is that embedded Javascript is *extremely* 
> popular, lots and
> lots of people are supporting it, and we ought to seriously consider
> doing the same.  It's hard to think of another PL that we could add
> that would give us anywhere near the bang for the buck that Javascript
> would.
>    

Quite.  I hate Javascript with a passion, wish it would just go away and 
stop meddling with my life.  And even with that context, I think in-core 
PL/V8 would be a huge advocacy win.  PostgreSQL has this great 
developer-oriented PL interface, it just doesn't work out of the box 
with any of the "pop" languages right now.

Personal story on this.  When my book came out, I was trying to take the 
#1 spot on Packt's bestseller list, even if it was just for a day.  
Never made it higher than #2.  The #1 spot the whole time was "jQuery 
1.4 Reference Guide", discussing the most popular JavaScript library out 
there.  And you know what?  Over a year later, it's *still there*.  At 
no point did it over drop out of that top spot.  The number of people 
who would consider server-side programming suddenly feasible if PL/V8 
were easy to do is orders of magnitude larger than the current 
PostgreSQL community.

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