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| The State of JavaScript - Brendan Eich (brendaneich.github.com) | ||
| recommended by 2 users | 2012 | 380 points by ryanstewart | javascript | original thread | | ||
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This can help https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4630057 «JS is the web's “virtual machine”» Brendan Eich |
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There's several reasons, read this post and Brendan's corresponding comments about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4630057
Practically speaking, it's quite a large engineering effort, duplicates maintenance work, and introduces a whole host of new problems (backwards compatibility, etc) itself. Not to mention the politics involved in getting all the browsers on-board and agreeing to a whole new completely different standard.