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I don't think the author really understands what's JavaScript... Like, we've had dynamically generated HTML for about 40 years. We just started writing those ba

I don't think the author really understands what's JavaScript... Like, we've had dynamically generated HTML for about 40 years. We just started writing those backend libraries in JS, but the effect is the same as using cgi, Perl, or PHP

dragonwriter 7y ago
> Like, we've had dynamically generated HTML for about 40 years. No, HTML was invented almost exactly 30 years ago; we didn't have dynamically-generated HTML 10 years earlier. > We just started writing those backend libraries in JS There's a difference between dynamically generating HTML documents delivered from the server and dynamically manipulating the DOM on the front end, and the author isn't talking about backend-specific but frontend-focussed libraries (though some can also do server-side rendering.)
- mikejturley 7y ago
  This is correct, although I should maybe have been more clear about that in the article.