In 30 years, JavaScript went from being a little scripting language to one of the world's most popular. Here are key moments to show how it has evolved and where it is headed.
I suspect writing cross-platform desktop/mobile apps in HTML/CSS/JS was another big pull in this direction.
Many popular languages are bad, yet JS is the one with a widely-deployed OS interface written in it (WebOS).
If free-software/open-source devs hadn’t got caught up chasing all this, there was a chance of replacing JS with other languages in the stack. HTML/CSS/your_language probably for apps initially, even making browsers support plugging in languages later. The docs say anything other than JS is not supported, so no <script type=“text/your_language”>. If only!
I suspect writing cross-platform desktop/mobile apps in HTML/CSS/JS was another big pull in this direction.
Many popular languages are bad, yet JS is the one with a widely-deployed OS interface written in it (WebOS).
If free-software/open-source devs hadn’t got caught up chasing all this, there was a chance of replacing JS with other languages in the stack. HTML/CSS/your_language probably for apps initially, even making browsers support plugging in languages later. The docs say anything other than JS is not supported, so no <script type=“text/your_language”>. If only!