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tobltobs on Sept 12, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: JavaScript Conquered the Web, Now It’s Taking Over...

Browsers are successful and Javascript was lucky to be the common base of browser languages.

goatlover on Sept 12, 2016 [–]

Pretty much this, although arguably JS's flexibility aided in allowing developers to get around various limitations. That can be seen as a good or bad thing, depending.

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