[abritinthebay]

13 years. It started in ~2003 that JavaScript as a whole was being approached differently. By 2006 a LOT had changed.

In 2008 V8 was released and 2009 Node was released. But that is merely the newest epoch of the current wave.

JavaScript has been taken seriously by those paying attention for ~13 years. They've been building the web with it while others complain about it.

So sorry, I rounded up by 2 years. But hyperbolic? Not really.

[reitanqild]

For server side javascript the earliest vague reference I can think of is Steve Yegge, - "The Next Big Language" from 2007: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/02/next-big-language.ht...

You seriously mean something was brewing 4 years before that?