• grue@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    someone like Brendan Eich who should know better turn to the dark side

    LOL, he inflicted Javascript upon the world. He never knew better and was always on the dark side.

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      JavaScript is a victim of its own popularity. It was originally meant to be scripting glue to do little actions in the browser while the real work was done in Java (LiveConnect) apps. But Java got jettisoned, JavaScript became more important and became the thing we love and hate today.