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It's apples and oranges. Python was explicitly designed and had a dedicated BDFL for the vast majority of its nearly 30 year history functioning as a standards
by elgenie 7y ago
It's apples and oranges.
Python was explicitly designed and had a dedicated BDFL for the vast majority of its nearly 30 year history functioning as a standards body.
JS, on the other hand, was hacked together in a week in the mid-90s and then the baseline implementation that could be relied on was emergent behavior at best, anarchy at worst for 15 years.
- fatbird 7y agoAgreed, but the anarchy of JS was a result of a dead standards process between the major vendors that resulted in de facto freeze. The anarchy is direct result of a stewardship body not evolving the language to meet evolving needs.