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Weird example. JS took a long time to take off, and had virtually no marketing budget. Or is your point that JS took off despite that, and so maybe is high qu
by jholman 4y ago
Weird example. JS took a long time to take off, and had virtually no marketing budget.
Or is your point that JS took off despite that, and so maybe is high quality? I think that's wrong too.
- homarp 4y agoJS name was based on Java. Pure marketing name. Launched by Netscape with Sun approval (they used to own the trademark, now it is Oracle) in 95. Netscape had money and marketshare. It was adopted by competing browsers (IE in 96, Opera end of 97) and removed alternatives (perl, tcl, python in browsers (eg https://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol2_3/tpj0203-0004.html https://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol2_3/tpj0203-0004.html ))
- homarp 4y agoAs for the quality of JS, there was a reason "JS the good parts" was popular. JS was a quickly made (in 10 days). It showed.