Timeline for How did JavaScript become popular?
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| Mar 5, 2013 at 16:57 | comment | added | Erik Reppen | IMO, there were other alternatives and there would have been more serious competition if JS hadn't been good at the problem domain. Nothing in heavy use normalizes and reduces complexity like JS does. | |
| Dec 22, 2010 at 5:08 | comment | added | chrisaycock | My comments are getting a bit big, so I spun this out as another answer: programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/28947/… | |
| Dec 22, 2010 at 4:45 | comment | added | chrisaycock | @Mathnerd314 Current emerging frontiers include multicore and cloud computing. Indeed, this is something that a language like Erlang could capitalize on. (Another example is the rise of Objective-C because of the emergence of smartphones, since Apple is such a big player in that space.) | |
| Dec 22, 2010 at 4:17 | vote | accept | Mathnerd314 | ||
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| Dec 22, 2010 at 4:15 | comment | added | Mathnerd314 | In order to recreate the success, I need to find an entirely new frontier of computing, and make the new language mandatory. I see... | |
| Dec 22, 2010 at 4:07 | comment | added | chrisaycock | @Mathnerd314 It's not so much the piggybacking as it was the only real language for a new frontier of computing, just as C was for Unix. Anyone who wanted a dynamic front-end was required to use JavaScript. | |
| Dec 22, 2010 at 3:58 | comment | added | Dean Harding | @Mathnerd314: It's not quite like that. JavaScript (thanks, Mr. CRT :p) was never separate from the browser: it was developed by Netscape specifically for use in their browser, so it's not like there was a concious decision to "piggyback" on Netscape's popularity in order to make the language popular. | |
| Dec 22, 2010 at 3:53 | comment | added | Mathnerd314 | So, by piggybacking on an existing (popular) piece of software that needed a higher-level language? | |
| Dec 22, 2010 at 3:50 | history | edited | Shog9 | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Dec 22, 2010 at 3:26 | history | answered | Dean Harding | CC BY-SA 2.5 |