https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html I could not find a reference to RPG's famous essay here, so I'm gue

https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html I could not find a reference to RPG's famous essay here, so I'm guessing it will be new to some folks. Mind you, WiB can be taken as license to do worse, which is sometimes just worse. JS in ten days actually got worse in the next 20 as I had early adopters ask for sloppy == and so on, and I gave them what they wanted. My fault for caving, but also part of the gamble to start fast and grow quickly. What people miss about the Web is the backward compatibility constraint, very real at almost any scale and reinforced by browser competition. As I RTed recently, "replace" is spelled "e x t e n d" on the Web. This is a lesson Dart and other well-heeled projects ignored, in spite of many (including inside Google) telling them so. So WiB means get on first, worse enough that you are first, better enough over time that you don't get replaced. By that criterion, JS is a huge success. Haters even turn around thanks to the language evolving toward ever-better extended editions such as ES2015 and beyond. See http://node.green/ http://node.green/.