Thirty years later, JavaScript is the glue that holds the interactive web together, warts and all.

As someone who has been in Internet, e-commerce and the all around development of the web almost since its inception, this article makes me feel very, very old.

    • phutatorius@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      12 hours ago

      And, if I recall correctly, the other option besides rolling their own interpreter was to just use Scheme as the browser scripting language. Which would have been immeasurably better.

    • pivot_root@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 days ago

      And native software.

      Because JavaScript runs everywhere, we have companies creating “apps” and PC “programs” that are little more than glorified web views. There’s normally nothing wrong with having shared code across implementations, but when that shared code is a 4 MB bundle of crap that creates 100s of MB in dictionaries and JIT compiler caches, you’re ruining the end-user experience.