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Discussion on: Why there is so much hype around doing things in JavaScript?

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Rory M

The "it's right there" nature of Javascript means that it's easy to get up and running with minimal fiddling. You install your browser, open the console and you can start writing Javascript.

Granted, the modern JS ecosystem is such that you need to spend a good amount of time configuring your dev environment and getting all your packages and dependencies set up, but it definitely feels like a far less frustrating process that setting up a local Apache server for PHP or rolling out IIS for .net.