• Kairos@lemmy.today
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    7 days ago

    Because only JS is able to do that in a web browser. Everything else is just a dependency tree.

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      7 days ago

      That’s not necessarily special to JS. It’s special to client-side code. A mobile app writing in swift could do this. A cli tool written in any language could do this.

      This isn’t an argument against JS, it’s an argument against misuse of client resources.

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          6 days ago

          Seems like you read the first two sentences of my post and stopped there, so you completely missed the point.

          It’s not JS that is the problem. It’s an issue of client resource use. That would be true no matter what language is being used.

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            5 days ago

            Not necessarily. Programmers are heavily influenced by the language they use. There’s a reason there’s so many JS frameworks.