# Rhinos and Tigers

DevFeed: [Rhinos and Tigers](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/rhinos-and-tigers-38760.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/06/rhinos-and-tigers.html>)

Author: Steve Yegge (noreply@blogger.com)

Published: 2008-06-14T21:11:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Steve Yegge](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/steve-yegge.md>)

Topics: [JavaScript](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/javascript.md>), [Java](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/java.md>), [Google](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google.md>)

Tags: [conference](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/conference.md>), [google](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/google.md>), [java](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/java.md>), [javascript](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/javascript.md>), [transcription](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/transcription.md>)

## AI overview

A written transcription of Steve Yegge's Google I/O talk about server-side JavaScript on the Java Virtual Machine, with substantial discussion of Mozilla Rhino and a section on static typing.

## Source excerpt

I will once again plagiarize myself by transcribing a talk I gave. First: be warned! I offer this gesture of respect to you -- yes, you! -- when I say that this is at least 20 minutes of reading. This is long even for me. If you're surfing reddit, gobbling up little information snacks, then it's best to think of this entry as being more like a big downer cow. Unless you're really hungry, you should wait for it to be sliced into little bite-sized prion patties before consuming it. If you do read it, you'll see the CJD analogy is surprisingly apt. I ramble even more than usual, and lose my train of thought, and the slides might as well be scenes from a David Lynch movie for all the relation they have to my actual talk. But once again I find myself astonished at how much I agree with myself, by and large. Funny how that works. And I made a few decent jokes here and there. So I'm transcribing it. If you're impatient, and I wouldn't blame you a bit, the best part is probably "Static Typing's Paper Tigers". That might be worth reading. As for the rest... *shrug* If you're really starved for content, you might find some of it entertaining. The Setting I gave this talk at the Google I/O Conference in San Francisco a few weeks ago. My talk was boringly titled "Server-Side JavaScript on the Java Virtual Machine", and there were initially only about 40 or 50 people in the room (out of a 2500-person conference) when I started the talk. Even though I personally thought the talk was pretty boring, people kept trickling in, and I estimate there were about 400 people stuffed in the room by the end. It was standing-room only, and people were spilling out into the hall. The conclusion? The other talks must have been really boring. After my talk it became pretty clear to me that it should have been titled "Rhinos and Tigers", so that's its new name. I've tried to make it flow well by splitting it into arbitrary sub-sections, whose titles aren't really part of the talk. But otherwise it'