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Re:Brendan Eich on the Lex Fridman Podcast [video] by cccc4alll on Monday February 15, 2021 @02:45PM (#26146404)
The top 5 biggest companies rely on javascript for huge portion of online business.

Microsoft - introduced AJAX to support their web enabled servers and online services. Have since morphed into Cloud based company.

Apple - lots of iOS apps are simple webviews that use javascript.

Amazon - online sales and cloud services using javascript.

Google - online ad services using javascript.

Facebook - online user behavior analytics using javascript.

Pretty much the entire online economy has huge dependency on javascript.

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Re:Brendan Eich on the Lex Fridman Podcast [video] by paulryanrogers on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @07:20PM (#26160852)
Granted. And PHP runs like 30% of public websites. I doubt it's the JS driving most of the value though. I suspect much of their success was/is still possible without requiring trusting novel, 3rd party code, to be run on demand.
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