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Re:JavaScript Conquered the Web, Now It’s Taking Over the De... by tobltobs on Monday September 12, 2016 @02:34PM (#12482391)
Browsers are successful and Javascript was lucky to be the common base of browser languages.
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Re:JavaScript Conquered the Web, Now It’s Taking Over the De... by goatlover on Monday September 12, 2016 @02:44PM (#12482486)
Pretty much this, although arguably JS's flexibility aided in allowing developers to get around various limitations. That can be seen as a good or bad thing, depending.
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