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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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