JavaScript was designed to be small snippets of glue code to handle DOM events. It was not designed to be for large applications.
The contenders for The Language of the Internet were Macromedia/Adobe Flash, Sun/Oracle Java, and Microsoft Silverlight. No one suspected that JavaScript would overtake all of those well-funded behemoths and rise the victor. Yet JavaScript persisted, and ultimately prevailed.
So whenever I get angry that JavaScript seems to do something stupid, I am reminded of its humble beginnings, and that it served the domain it was designed for very well.
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JavaScript was designed to be small snippets of glue code to handle DOM events. It was not designed to be for large applications.
The contenders for The Language of the Internet were Macromedia/Adobe Flash, Sun/Oracle Java, and Microsoft Silverlight. No one suspected that JavaScript would overtake all of those well-funded behemoths and rise the victor. Yet JavaScript persisted, and ultimately prevailed.
So whenever I get angry that JavaScript seems to do something stupid, I am reminded of its humble beginnings, and that it served the domain it was designed for very well.