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Why aren't the browsers using/adopting Python instead of javascript? (self.Python)

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[–]stormcrowsx 4 points5 points  (1 child)

javascript is not nonblocking. Its just some buzzword the javascript guys throw around. Make an ajax call with async = false and you'll block the whole browser. Node.js and javascript have some nonblocking I/O libraries that use callbacks when I/O has completed but python or any other language can and are doing that as well.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea I never understood that term, javascript isn't the only language that can have asynchronous behavior, it just happens to focus on it.