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> It was the first programming language available to the general public that was easy enough for the public to use without a CS education - and it running on th
by Sohcahtoa82 4y ago
> It was the first programming language available to the general public that was easy enough for the public to use without a CS education - and it running on the web made it ubiquitous.
BASIC would like a word.
Heck, even Python came 4 years before JS.
- krapp 4y agoJavascript was still easier to use and more readily available than either of those.
- Sohcahtoa82 4y agoDebatable. I find JavaScript's type system to be horrendous and bug prone. I'd rather operations between two types that don't make sense (like dividing an Array by an Object) to throw an explicit error than to just do some unpredictable shit that causes a subtle bug. Also, BASIC is probably the easiest language to learn, though this is mostly because it lacks capabilities that create complexities. It's a completely obsolete language.
- amalgamated_inc 4y agoProbably a generational thing. I learned BASIC, but when I was a kid, I had not internet, no phone, and no browser. Nowadays everyone has 10 JavaScript interpreters in every device, so it's much more accessible than finding out about and installing BASIC. BASIC also lost all relevance in terms of actually being useful (if it ever had it), whereas JS is the bee's knees.
- ElectricalUnion 4y ago> Also, COBOL is probably the easiest language to learn, is mostly Just English. /s FTFY.