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Re:James Webb Telescope will run a proprietary JS interprete... by kowdermeister on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @11:48AM (#19739593)
The wat talk is really funny, but it proves only that if you do moronic things, you will get nonsense results. Truly shocking.

> cobbled together in a few weeks by some poor fellow

It was. And then all work has stopped on it, right?

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Re:James Webb Telescope will run a proprietary JS interprete... by redleggedfrog on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @12:26PM (#19740022)
No, but that's it's Achilles heel. You can't really just the fundamental part of the language because a gajillion websites are already in existence using it. We're stuck with the janky.
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Re:James Webb Telescope will run a proprietary JS interprete... by kowdermeister on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @12:43PM (#19740198)
Are the fundamentals really janky?

Prototypical inheritance is actually not a bad choice.

The event loop also stood the stand the test of time, it's a great choice for IO heavy environments like the web is.

The weak type system made it possible to bang out code really quickly without much thought thus making it very beginner friendly. Most of its issues can be traced back to this.

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