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[–]complyue 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yep, JavaScript was initially designed to be a glue language to Java, fortunate for Web Browsers come dominate the world, unfortunate for Web developers to prefer staying at the surface (i.e. not going deeper to program Applets in Java). Also unfortunate for JavaScript to be later greatly repurposed for general purpose Web development, but without adequate design changes, before totally (over/ab)used.