Re:Hackers Were Inside Citrix for Five Months
by sangnoir on Thursday February 20, 2020 @12:18PM
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> I wonder if anyone's tried to write a language primarily for manipulating the DOM that's less... "quirky" than JavaScript?
I don't know about "less quirky", but Microsoft tried with VBScript. Google tried with Dart. Initially, Dart meant to be interpreted by the browser (not transpiled to JS). I'm sure there might have been similar, smaller projects, but Javascript-in-the-browser has momentum that's hard to beat.
I don't know about "less quirky", but Microsoft tried with VBScript. Google tried with Dart. Initially, Dart meant to be interpreted by the browser (not transpiled to JS). I'm sure there might have been similar, smaller projects, but Javascript-in-the-browser has momentum that's hard to beat.