flaki

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1. 1.▲
   by flaki 12y ago

   Chromium, rather than Webkit, but yes - thanks for pointing that out I have fixed this (Blink was created much later, in early 2013).
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   by flaki 12y ago

   If you are saying this, you certainly didn't read the article (properly). You can not "eradicate old legacy libraries" on whim - this stuff is out there . It is used by software out there. Software that would break if thin
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   by flaki 12y ago

   As for jQuery - nobody disputes that it had HUGE impact on the web - document.querySelector(All) itself is the living proof to that claim. It's just... it was around for waaay to long. Building tools and extending what is currently mad
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   by flaki 12y ago

   According to Brendan Eich ( http://devchat.tv/js-jabber/124-jsj-the-origin-of-javascript... ), early on JavaScript was inspired by Scheme and the initial plan was to create a language that was "Scheme in the browser