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Re:JavaScript's world domination by pluma on Wednesday March 25, 2015 @06:47AM (#9262100)
JS is special because it has to be backwards-compatible.

It basically contains its entire history, from a PHP-like hack job that started it to the very elegant ES6/7. It's probably one of the few languages that expose their whole fossil record.

Re:JavaScript's world domination by sacado2 on Wednesday March 25, 2015 @09:53AM (#9262916)
Don't forget C++. Being older, it accumulated more cruft.