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That's definitely one of the main original use cases, but it would have been a bad decision to base the entire language around the limitations of HTML, and I do
by jacobsimon 2y ago
That's definitely one of the main original use cases, but it would have been a bad decision to base the entire language around the limitations of HTML, and I doubt JavaScript today would be the most popular programming language today if they had. You can read the original ECMAScript 1 standard here, which is titled: "A general purpose, cross-platform programming language"[1].
https://ecma-international.org/wp-content/uploads/ECMA-262_1st_edition_june_1997.pdf https://ecma-international.org/wp-content/uploads/ECMA-262_1...
- AmpsterMan 2y agoI think a lot of people dislike that JavaScript is a general purpose programming language, rather than being a scripting engine for browsers.
- wredcoll 2y agoA lot of people dislike any tool that actually has wide spread usage. No one complains about tools that have been abandoned.
- triceratops 2y ago"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses." - Bjarne Stroustrop