Archive - Science and software

How to avoid JavaScript

Despite the JavaScript revolution, people still resist it

Jul 8, 2021 •

Antonis Christofides

Stunning the non-JavaScript web developers

What were the Django people doing while JavaScript was becoming popular?

Jul 7, 2021 •

Antonis Christofides

How JavaScript became popular—recap

The JavaScript explosion was initiated by a series of events from 2008 to 2015

Jul 6, 2021 •

Antonis Christofides

How JavaScript became popular—part 5

The frameworks changed the way web applications work

Jul 5, 2021 •

Antonis Christofides

June 2021

How JavaScript became popular—part 4

JavaScript was a bad language but Babel helped work around the problem

Jun 30, 2021 •

Antonis Christofides

How JavaScript became popular—part 3

Running the same language on the server and on the browser was quite appealing

Jun 25, 2021 •

Antonis Christofides

How JavaScript became popular—part 2

In 2009 you no longer needed a browser to run JavaScript.

Jun 18, 2021 •

Antonis Christofides

How JavaScript became popular—part 1

Google Chrome precipitated the JavaScript revolution

Jun 17, 2021 •

Antonis Christofides

Why most software is substandard

Programmers are condemned by the nature of programming itself to make bad software

Jun 2, 2021 •

Antonis Christofides

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Some names should be better left meaningless

Jun 1, 2021 •

Antonis Christofides

May 2021

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