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0 pointsnitwit0052y ago0 comments

Sure, but they could have made something very different, and that would still be true. People just have no choice but to use JS.

Plenty chose Flash, Java, and friends when there were other options.

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kevinmchugh2y ago· 1 in thread

And JavaScript beat those.

nitwit005OP2y ago

Not due to some sort of virtue of the language being better. The browser devs wanted to cut down the security surface area. Javascript wasn't as removable as the plugins that used other languages were.

drewda2y ago

For what it's worth, I miss Adobe Flex.

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