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Re:MIT Scheme on Apple Silicon by andrewxdiamond on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @01:25PM (#29716355)
> The vast majority of the programs in the world are written in Javascript

Where is this coming from? What about the literal thousands and thousands of programs on your OS right now? Or the thousands of systems that power large corporations that predate JavaScript popularity?

Sure the language is popular right now, but software development has a much longer history than the last 10 years

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Re:MIT Scheme on Apple Silicon by saagarjha on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @03:47PM (#29717941)
They’re talking about the web.
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