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JavaScript was definitely designed for web development. Though, at the time web development meant a tiny bit of magic in an otherwise static html document.
by dec0dedab0de 6y ago
JavaScript was definitely designed for web development. Though, at the time web development meant a tiny bit of magic in an otherwise static html document.
- bhaak 6y agoI wouldn’t call “animating a piece of text” on a HTML page as “web development. 16 bit home computers could do this better 10 years before JS.
- whatshisface 6y agoThe crucial distinguishing factor is that JS was made to animate a bit of text... on every device in existence, past present or future. That's the biggest difference between the web and native.
- riquito 6y agoThe "every device in existence" fails with node, at example, which has a different standard library, and every browser support libraries and even syntax differently (which is why we backport stuff with tools like babel)
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- nobleach 6y agoI can only guess but, I think the parent means web development in the context of an HTTP server. (GET/POST/etc).