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Re:Sick of Ruby, dynamic typing, side effects, and object-or... by welly on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @07:03AM (#15642657)
> As far as benefits to the users are concerned, why is today's web better?

It does more. Significantly more than "back in the day".

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Re:Sick of Ruby, dynamic typing, side effects, and object-or... by blub on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @08:01AM (#15642968)
It does more or less what Flash did back then. Probably less.

JS is nicer because it's a standard and it's supported everywhere.

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Re:Sick of Ruby, dynamic typing, side effects, and object-or... by ashark on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @10:42AM (#15644287)
It seems to me that modern JS and CSS are mostly used to make much-worse-performing and even-more-annoying replacements for frames, and a plague of worse-than-ever popups. :-/
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