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It is obviously an impressive thing. People are always impressed by a computer language/framework that can do "so much" in "so little". Combine that with the b
by pritambaral 13y ago
It is obviously an impressive thing. People are always impressed by a computer language/framework that can do "so much" in "so little".
Combine that with the behaviour of human attention, precisely how one thing inspires another, and trace it back to the original "spreadsheet in 30 lines" post, you can see that these type of posts are just recurring manifestations of executions of the same principle.
By the way, JavaScript, even without the host of browser-side framework, IS a powerful language. Of course, it stands on the shoulders of giants: JIT, platform abstraction, type-management, memory management, graphics (browser), visual toolkit (browser) etc.