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Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995)

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Re: Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995)

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Post by paulryanrogers »

logicchains wrote: post #37
Orthw2020 wrote: post #19

What bothers me is that they actually never apologised. A simple statement of acknowledging the damage caused would do!

Its created got fired from his job as CEO for creating it, isn't that punishment enough?

Eich wasn't fired for making JS. He was fired because of some political donations and opposing same sex marriage.

Re: Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995)

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Post by dan-robertson »

greenkey wrote: post #7

I wish Matz had been there with Rubyscript. JS wasn’t as powerful back then; it took over a decade for it to evolve enough where people would really use it for much other than client-side validation and neat UI tricks. In comparison, Ruby was a great language to use, and it would’ve grown more quickly.

I wish they’d just used scheme

Re: Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995)

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Post by cesarb »

netdur wrote: post #35
Orthw2020 wrote: post #19

What bothers me is that they actually never apologised. A simple statement of acknowledging the damage caused would do!

For what? Imagine a world without Javascript? You have mini extension in browser to just auto refresh gmail

> You have mini extension in browser to just auto refresh gmail

That existed without JavaScript (and IIRC it was somewhat common back when JavaScript was a novelty):

Re: Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995)

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Post by Jean-Philipe »

tonyedgecombe wrote: post #41
netdur wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For what? Imagine a world without Javascript? You have mini extension in browser to just auto refresh gmail

Imagine a world without Javascript? What a dream.

I'd be afraid flash would come back. Ah, those flashbacks...

Re: Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995)

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Post by [deleted] »

hrafn wrote: post #40
lr4444lr wrote: post #26

... and still looks like it hasn't aged a day in some ways. https://www.jwz.org/blog/2010/10/every-day-i-learn-something...

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Re: Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995)

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Post by k__ »

Aeolun wrote: post #18

Damn, I was 7 at the time. And by the time I was 17, and just starting to build websites, it still felt like Javascript was barely a baby.

I was 10 when it came out and wrote my first line of JS with 18 or something. It already felt dated to me at that time.

Re: Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995)

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Post by jfoster »

optimalsolver wrote: post #61

It doesn't have to be this way. Hopefully Brython[0] which lets you do client-side Python scripting takes off. Imagine doing full stack web dev without seeing a single line of JS. [0] https://brython.info/

I love the idea. From experience, though, this type of thing becomes a bit painful when you realise that you actually want to use some of the tools & code from the javascript world.
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