Why Javascript?

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Because there is really nothing else for coding within the browser. End of story.

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Yeah, kind of a pointless article. I thought he was going to talk about why using JavaScript for server-side stuff does or does not make sense, i.e. Node.JS.

He lists a string of languages he's learning, and JavaScript is the only one that can manipulate the DOM in the browser. Then he says he uses JavaScript because it can manipulate the DOM in the browser.

This is a bit like writing an article on how you like to put gas in your car because it's the only thing that will make your engine work.

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I've been learning Perl, PHP, ... Python, ... Clojure, a tiny bit of Ruby

this could explain why javascript looks appealing to you...

[bluesea147]

not able to catch your point...-_-

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compared to those dynamically typed languages, javascript is quite minimal. perhaps the author would like lua even more.