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Re:Visual Tcl by beagle3 on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @07:21AM (#25927333)
Until Node (when it was more than 10 years old), JS essentially did not exist outside the web.

And other languages essentially didn’t exist inside the web.

So JS’s success is the web’s success, other explanations are not helpful or needed.

I wouldn’t characterize JS as fun either, especially not in comparison to Python which predates it.

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Re:Visual Tcl by andylynch on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @09:21AM (#25928541)
Funny how that came back into vogue. Netscape web server had a JS runtime way back then. Node is way nicer to use though.

I also remember around the same time it was possible to run TCL in browser, like Java applets.

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Re:Visual Tcl by beagle3 on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @02:22PM (#25932617)
You could run lots of things with the right plug-in/activex component. And even VBScript on IE/Win. But Netscape Navigator was not yet dead, so the only reliable browser scripting language was JS.
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Re:Visual Tcl by vram22 on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @01:43PM (#25932091)
> Netscape web server had a JS runtime way back then.

And "applogics", in JS, IIRC. Touched it a bit in the 2000s.

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Re:Visual Tcl by bachmeier on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @08:06AM (#25927711)
> And other languages essentially didn’t exist inside the web.

Having trouble following your argument. What were people doing with PHP if not "inside the web"?

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Re:Visual Tcl by Kototama on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @09:01AM (#25928331)
The argument is that since Javascript was the only programming language running in the browser, it was bound to be successful with the explosion of the web ; other arguments trying to justify why it succeed are not relevant.
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