Re:Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10...
by globular-toast on Saturday May 15, 2021 @12:27PM
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I use both JS and Python for work and not a day goes by where I don't wish history had taken a different course and Python had ended up embedded in web browsers.
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Re:Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10...
by qbasic_forever on Saturday May 15, 2021 @01:33PM
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There was a strange time in the dark days of IE6 dominance 20 years ago that you actually could write page scripts in non-javascript languages. VBScript was a big option that some people used, and IIRC there was a way to get python support in IE (and Windows) script host too. When I was first learning Javascript in ~1998 I remember all the docs showed how to do stuff in both JS and VB script tags: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17483782/vbscript-suppor...