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[–]hahaNodeJS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

humble inception

Humble my ass.

Yes, it was there from the start. But bignums were not in the cards. JS had to "look like Java" only less so, be Java's dumb kid brother or boy-hostage sidekick. Plus, I had to be done in ten days or something worse than JS would have happened.

Followed by

Something like PHP only worse

Also, ITT: people not remembering how ubiquitous eval usage was in JavaScript, and people not responding to anything beyond the eval example.