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There’s no ‘we’. We don’t coordinate. We don’t design up front. Did Brendan Eich consult ‘us’ before he unilaterally made JavaScript the fucking ‘assembly langu
by psyc 4y ago
There’s no ‘we’. We don’t coordinate. We don’t design up front. Did Brendan Eich consult ‘us’ before he unilaterally made JavaScript the fucking ‘assembly language of the web’ for the following 25 years? No, he just got it in there, and the whole industry that burgeoned afterwards did whatever they could with what was already there. Who has time (or clout) to design a sane application stack and appropriate tools, when there’s money to be made?
There’s no we. There’s a million moths slapping into everything and being drawn to various bright, often false, lights.
- MaxBarraclough 4y ago> Who has time (or clout) to design a sane application stack and appropriate tools, when there’s money to be made? Sun Microsystems had a go, but as you say, unfortunately it wasn't a money-maker.