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by eropple 3476 days ago
I think JavaScript developers know how to make single web pages.

http://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/7.0/

But you're just trolling (and for something mediocre in the first place, sit down, he said from his lofty perch), so you should stop.

1 comments

Thanks, that's very helpful!

I'm not sure what would make you think I'm trolling, because I'm not. Go was the only language I genuinely knew had a spec on a single page, and I thought other languages don't do that because it's not feasible (and the reason Go can do it is because it's much simpler and has a lot less features).

Now it's interesting to be able to compare the size of the two specs.

Other languages don't do it? What do you think C99 is? Or C++14? They're not "a single page", because they're ratified standards and so they're books and so they're PDFs, but--more importantly, who cares? Who doesn't specify their language, if they specify their language, in a single document?

Heck, why does this surprise you in the first place? Why do you think it's called ECMAscript?