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by megaduck 5624 days ago
Looking at Yegge's projects, I think NBL was just "javascript". The first big one was a rails clone on Rhino, which he talked about but never released (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QD9XQm_Jd4).

After that, he started building a system for extending emacs with JS, named "ejacs". It never got fully baked, but the effort produced the very nice js2-mode. Details here: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/11/ejacs-javascript-int...

So, I think NBL was just "Javascript". Awesome call. Despite the problems with the standards process, JS has exploded in popularity over the past three years.