This kind of post and response, meaningless in the grand scheme of things, is why I come to HN. You never know who will be next to say X sucks and then have someone personally involved in creating X speak up unexpectedly. Makes you want to apologize for saying X sucks in the first place, except you're not because without it you wouldn't get the resulting conversation. ;-) It does make me wonder, what things have I said about somebody's creation and then have them come along and see it. Sometimes it's just hard to remember there are real humans on the other side of this screen. ... And with that, I know I'm up too late. Good night all, and thanks for the post, Brenden. I did want to point out though... You forgot IE 10 and especially 11, plus the fun Opera Mini must have had remotely executing JS for a brief time. But these wouldn't significantly revise the numbers up too much. I'd add Adobe to the mix, but ActionScript and AIR are maybe too far from a browser to count for much evolution in JS terms.
Right, see EDIT for Chakra, and yes, I forgot Opera. Lars Thomas Hansen, then Chris Pine, on LinearB and Futhark; then Jens Lindstrom and (I heard) a small team in Sweden on Carakan.
Also (ahem), I forgot Mozilla in the post-2003 era.
Still, no matter the addenda and the crazy $1M/person-year, nowhere near even $1B.
You never know who will be next to say X sucks and then have someone personally involved in creating X speak up unexpectedly.
So then HN is now the /. of the mid 201X? /. Was at its best when people in the know were finally pissed off enough to chime in and set the hooligans straight.
It does make me wonder, what things have I said about somebody's creation and then have them come along and see it
I passingly wrote some disparaging remarks in a github issue about the ES6 binary data strawman spec written by Dave Herman, pretty much out of my own ignorance, only to get a message from him a few months later asking for feedback on it and what I thought was wrong.
By this point I had learned more about the topic and reading the spec language and knew enough to know I had just been an idiot. I ashamedly responded with an apology and basically told him that my criticism could be ignored because it came from my lack of understanding and not a real problem with the spec.
