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Re:Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10... by magila on Saturday May 15, 2021 @12:41PM (#27166727)
That has nothing to do with Javascript's merits as a language though. It's simply the only language browsers expose the DOM to natively.
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Re:Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10... by aphextron on Saturday May 15, 2021 @12:45PM (#27166761)
>That has nothing to do with Javascript's merits as a language though.

Sure it does. DOM support is built into the very core of JS as a language, and that has shaped the entire history of its' development and subsequent API choices. It's not just a library that it happens to support, the way it would be with any other language.

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