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Re:A spreadsheet in fewer than 30 lines of JavaScript, no li... by pjc50 on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @04:03PM (#6728489)
Not learn it?

Certainly an option; keeping the syntax recognisable helped rather than hindered adoption, which was slow enough as it was at the beginning.

JS+DOM could have lost to Flash rather than vice versa.

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Re:A spreadsheet in fewer than 30 lines of JavaScript, no li... by jlgreco on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @04:24PM (#6728660)
If being "like java" was so important, then why didn't it just straight up lose to "actually java"?

I don't think that JS+DOM beating flash/java has much to do at all with "gee, this looks superficially like java, but is different enough to trip me up in rather weird ways".

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Re:A spreadsheet in fewer than 30 lines of JavaScript, no li... by davvolun on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @05:01PM (#6728922)
Don't conflate why Flash lost to why Java (in the browser) lost, there are very different reasons. For one thing, Java had failed as a browser plugin long before Flash did (as if we don't still see Flash in the browser...I wonder what our discussion would be if not for Apple?).
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