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Honestly, I think JavaScript was just in the right place at the right time. If you haven't seen ES2016 yet though, it's really worth a look. Electron JavaScript

Honestly, I think JavaScript was just in the right place at the right time. If you haven't seen ES2016 yet though, it's really worth a look. Electron JavaScript isn't the jQuery crap of the 1990's. It's got destructuring assignment, classes, template strings, let / const, you name it... https://github.com/lukehoban/es6features https://github.com/lukehoban/es6features

nathancahill 10y ago
"classes"
T-A 10y ago
I feel compelled to point out that jQuery 1.0 was released in August 2006: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JQuery#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JQuery#History
collyw 10y ago
The web browser being the right place. There still isn't any real competition there.