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That's an emergent property, a complex behaviour of a collective arising from interactions at scale, and is presumably an unintended consequence. What interest
by inopinatus 9y ago
That's an emergent property, a complex behaviour of a collective arising from interactions at scale, and is presumably an unintended consequence. What interests me is whether this arose by chance, or from some aspect of language design and/or ecosystem initial conditions and subsequent context.
- codefined 9y agoHonestly, I feel this would happen to most systems that have the following properties: - One size fits all, (clients can only run one language, JS, so it has to fit many use cases). - Popular (JS seems to be the most popular language at the moment, having beaten Java on most scales in the past year). - Not owned by a corporation, (whilst probably a good thing, this does lead to "design by committee" issues. - Backwards compatible (in all this time, only a minimal amount of breaking changes).