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MS torpedoed early web development with their monopoly. Then it got out of their control and flooded by VC money for hacking the toy scripting language embedded
by namaria 4y ago
MS torpedoed early web development with their monopoly. Then it got out of their control and flooded by VC money for hacking the toy scripting language embedded in independent browsers. Now it's a huge mess, corporations throw bodies at the problem and the only people qualified enough to change it have golden handcuffs and won't.
- CyberDildonics 4y agoCan you define the problem?
- MrGuts 4y agoI think he's talking about the early history of JavaScript, as related by Douglas Crockford. I guess the problem statement is "Why is JavaScript actually named after a skin disease?"
- CyberDildonics 4y agoI guess the problem statement is "Why is JavaScript actually named after a skin disease?" I have no idea what this is supposed to mean
- namaria 4y ago'Software is tiresome', you know, the thread