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Discussion on: Why doesn't CSS move faster (like JavaScript)?

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Arden de Raaij • Edited

Don't forget that JavaScript has NOT been moving at all for years, and all this fastness is fairly new:

ECMAScript 3 was released in 1999, ECMAScript 4 was abandoned, and ECMAScript 5 didn't came out until 2009, with a 5.1 update in 2011.

It wasn't until 2015 that ES6 was introduced, together with stages and a yearly release cycle.

And a big-up to BabelJS as well, which I think is incredibly important for the fast moving pace of JavaScript. For more on this, check my post on Transpiling: dev.to/ardennl/what-i-talk-about-w...

Nowadays JavaScript is moving fast and has a stable release cycle, but remember that this hasn't always been the case.

About CSS, I have no clue! Something interesting to look into!