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No competition? How about Flash, Java applets, ActiveX, Silverlight, and even VBScript -- which Microsoft pushed to compete directly with JavaScript as the embe
by tomjakubowski 9y ago
No competition? How about Flash, Java applets, ActiveX, Silverlight, and even VBScript -- which Microsoft pushed to compete directly with JavaScript as the embedded scripting language for the web.
- srcmap 9y agoJavaScript lives in a more diverse environments: Multiple browsers, webkit engine, now NodeJS, React, etc. Varieties, cross pollination from different JS engine/teams make JS much stronger. Flash, ActiveX, Silverlight, VBScript are all seem more mono-culture - Start to die as soon as the parent organizations/core dev team loss interest / move on to to next best thing. Flash is a successful until CPU usage, security issues kill it. Just like strong mono-culture plant in a farm got wipe out certain deceases/virus.
- pcr0 9y agoAll of those were either additional plugins that had to be installed, came with a huge vulnerability surface and/or were closed standards.