JavaScript is the nuclear warhead of programming languages.
October 23, 2024•582 words
JavaScript is wacky.
JavaScript was invented in 10 days for Netscape Navigator in 1995 to help gain market share from Mosaic, the most popular browser at the time from the University of Illinois. Eventually, in the late 90s and early 2000s, competitors joined the competition such as Internet Explorer, Opera, and Mozilla Firefox.
However, instead of inventing their own scripting languages, those competitors also chose to use JavaScript, likely due to motivations by easing the barrier to entry t...
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