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Re:How F5Bot Slurps All of Reddit by barrkel on Monday July 30, 2018 @06:06PM (#17648570)
Yes, but JS is faster than Ruby and Python, and indeed most of your go-to scripting options.
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Re:How F5Bot Slurps All of Reddit by anonytrary on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @02:24AM (#17650974)
JS has the advantage of being the thing that makes your website run faster on the screen of the user whose clicks are earning you ad dollars. JS is in a good spot.
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