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How to avoid JavaScript
Despite the JavaScript revolution, people still resist it
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Antonis Christofides
Stunning the non-JavaScript web developers
What were the Django people doing while JavaScript was becoming popular?
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How JavaScript became popular—recap
The JavaScript explosion was initiated by a series of events from 2008 to 2015
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How JavaScript became popular—part 5
The frameworks changed the way web applications work
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Antonis Christofides

June 2021

How JavaScript became popular—part 4
JavaScript was a bad language but Babel helped work around the problem
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How JavaScript became popular—part 3
Running the same language on the server and on the browser was quite appealing
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How JavaScript became popular—part 2
In 2009 you no longer needed a browser to run JavaScript.
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How JavaScript became popular—part 1
Google Chrome precipitated the JavaScript revolution
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Why most software is substandard
Programmers are condemned by the nature of programming itself to make bad software
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p = [(13 + 8 × century) / 25]
Some names should be better left meaningless
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Antonis Christofides

May 2021

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