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IMO it does have meaning, in the a technical sense, not necessarily commercially. JS does monopolize browser scripting. Now that you mentioned it, it's quite interesting that there are basically no competitors to JS, in the browser.


> it's quite interesting that there are basically no competitors to JS, in the browser

Because the next best way to change a standard is add another one?

For all the moaning about javascript over the past decades, it has evolved into a fairly formidable language since 2015.

I’m not even sure introducing a new language would help anything at all. It would simply be quickly adopted by those the very same abusers.

Maybe the solution instead is to have better browsers and implement better privacy policies.


I like JS, actually. It would be great to have some diversity tho. Also i agree on having better browsers.




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