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I'd like to say it's a testament to the original design; but I can't overlook the hundreds of millions of dollars, perhaps more, that has been spent to improve
by dleslie 5y ago
I'd like to say it's a testament to the original design; but I can't overlook the hundreds of millions of dollars, perhaps more, that has been spent to improve the language.
It's nothing short of incredible that it is as fast as it is and as useful as it is. It shows that many hands do make light work; and money can buy that effort.
- irrational 5y agoI don't have any numbers to back this up, but I'm pretty sure that between Google, Mozilla, MicroSoft, etc. more resources (both people and money) have been put towards improving JavaScript (language and performance) than any other language in the history of programming. Now I hope someone will provide numbers to show why I'm wrong.
- dleslie 5y agoI want to say that C has had more resources due to it being the defacto compiler reference target; but honestly, I doubt it.
- hajile 5y agoHuge amounts of inspiration came from coffeescript. The biggest advantage of JS has often been going last and executing what is already proven to be a great idea.