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Ask HN: What is JavaScript?
Someone on the street asks you the simple question "What is Javascript?". You don't know anything about this person.
How do you personally answer this question?
- T-A 10y ago"It's a programming language." If they don't know what that means, they will probably ask the obvious next question.
- tantalor 10y agoThe programming language that runs on the most devices.
- FroshKiller 10y ago"It's a programming language."
- kafkaesq 10y ago"You know all that dynamic stuff that happens inside a web page? Frames opening, windows closing, forms populating? JavaScript does that."
- GFK_of_xmaspast 10y agoA miserable pile of callbacks.