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toyg on Jan 2, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Was Javascript really made in 10 days?

It would have likely been killed by the more amenable VBScript, which MS put up as a competitor for a while.

jahnu on Jan 2, 2024 [–]

If it was HTML and a lisp yeah it might have faltered as you suggest. But I think if it was all lisp … maybe just maybe things would be different :)

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