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Despite the JavaScript revolution, people still resist it

Antonis Christofides

Jul 8

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

Antonis Christofides

Jul 7

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

Antonis Christofides

Jul 6

The frameworks changed the way web applications work

Antonis Christofides

Jul 5

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

Antonis Christofides

Jun 30

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

Antonis Christofides

Jun 25

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

Antonis Christofides

Jun 18

Google Chrome precipitated the JavaScript revolution

Antonis Christofides

Jun 17

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

Antonis Christofides

Jun 2

Some names should be better left meaningless

Antonis Christofides

Jun 1

Why was the calendar moved by ten days? Why not nine or eleven?

Antonis Christofides

May 28

Ideas from programming could help make math more understandable

Antonis Christofides

May 27

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