• whoisearth@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      The JavaScript ecosystem is made worse by the legions of “developers” in it which amount to bro-velopers that put no thought into if something is needed before they create it. There’s a strong overlap between the idiots in crypto and JavaScript developers that needs to be decoupled drastically.

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      1 year ago

      I forgot where I heard this, but at one point around the same time, Microsoft was trying to get BASIC embedded into webpages for Internet Explorer as a competitor to JavaScript.

      Would the internet really be better with BASIC?

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        What do you mean going to? Internet Explorer supported VBscript, which was a “competitor” to Javascript. Though being locked to ie was a hindrance to adoption. That, and it was based on vb.