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BASIC is dope. Maybe hipsters will start using it to build WebApps in a few years, and it will dethrone JavaScript as the hipster language de jour.

• tmalsburg2 9y ago
  JavaScript can hardly be called the language de jour when has been pretty much the only serious frontend language in the (short) history of the web.
  • m0skit0 9y ago
    Actually 30+ years is almost half of computer history...
    • deoxxa 9y ago
      How did you arrive at 30+ years?
      • deleted 9y ago
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      • m0skit0 9y ago
        The first web browser was released on 1990, so 27 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web
  • crispytx 9y ago
    I was talking about server-side JavaScript.
• asadlionpk 9y ago
  No matter how inefficient, JS has made webdev available to order of magnitude more people than it was before.
  • m0skit0 9y ago
    We're not in 1995 anymore...