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Which is the case for all technologies at one time. With that line of thinking, we would all be using Internet Explorer. JavaScript did not birth with a fully
by bsg75 14y ago
Which is the case for all technologies at one time. With that line of thinking, we would all be using Internet Explorer.
JavaScript did not birth with a fully formed userbase.
- CamperBob2 14y agoBut the fact is that JavaScript does have a fully formed user base now. The whole idea behind this effort is to facilitate contributions to Wikimedia from a diverse set of (presumably busy) contributors, correct? If so, what's the point in making them learn a new language in order to contribute, when an existing well-known language is a perfectly reasonable fit? Sounds like someone had a Lua hammer, so everything looked like a Lua nail.
- borntyping 14y ago> Sounds like someone had a Lua hammer, so everything looked like a Lua nail. Same could be said for most of the JS proponents in the thread.