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Re:I Do Not Like Go by hollerith on Friday December 21, 2018 @09:28AM (#18733468)
I will assume you're referring to Node. The browser explains why many coders know Javascript well; the fact that many coders know Javascript well explains the popularity of Node --without our having to resort to the hypothesis that Javascript is a good language.
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Re:I Do Not Like Go by YeGoblynQueenne on Friday December 21, 2018 @06:30PM (#18737660)
I'm referring to the adoption of javascript as the scripting language for browsers. Why else do "many coders know javascript well"?
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Re:I Do Not Like Go by kazinator on Saturday December 22, 2018 @01:28AM (#18739299)
The story of how we got Javascript in browsers has absolutely nothing to do with "adoption".
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Re:I Do Not Like Go by YeGoblynQueenne on Saturday December 22, 2018 @05:06AM (#18739936)
But there wasn't anything stopping early browsers from using a different scripting language. They stuck with javascript. Was that because it was a good language?

And what about Java, for example? And why don't people "flock" to LISP, say, or Haskell? Are those "bad" languages, now? And what about software, like windows- is windows widely used because it's a great operating system?

Adoption is a rotten bad measure of quality. Not just in programming languages- in everything.

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Re:I Do Not Like Go by kazinator on Saturday December 22, 2018 @04:56PM (#18742676)
> But there wasn't anything stopping early browsers from using a different scripting language.

You mean "nothing stopping the other browser, Microsoft Internet Explorer, from adopting Netscape's Javascript too".

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Re:I Do Not Like Go by YeGoblynQueenne on Sunday December 23, 2018 @10:12AM (#18746471)
Well yes. Don't the other browser vendors count as adopters?
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Re:I Do Not Like Go by em-bee on Sunday December 23, 2018 @09:56AM (#18746381)
agreed. after i learned common lisp and smalltalk, i realized that since there has hardly been any innovation in programming since the first languages half a century ago.
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