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Re:My Love Letter to Rails (and Ruby) – Or, Why RoR Isn't De... by arrowsmith on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @10:07AM (#37999363)
> javascript was in a horrible, braindead place

was?

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Re:My Love Letter to Rails (and Ruby) – Or, Why RoR Isn't De... by e12e on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @10:25AM (#37999593)
Before modules, "let"/"const", uniform APIs cross browsers (xmlhttprequest, anyone?) - js was much, much worse. Rails dates back to before 2005 - before chrome existed, and around the time Firefox emerged from Netscape.
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