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by Sir_Cmpwn 3305 days ago
Plus, I don't really see any reason to be impressed by "the founder also created JavaScript". That's just like saying "the founder is a famous fuck-up whose legacy has made you suffer".
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Please don't.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14453783 and marked it off-topic.

Read the history of JavaScript sometime. It's not his fault that the language has so many flaws. He had 10 days to create it [0]! If he'd been given a normal budget and schedule and free license to design the language, we might've​ had something more like Scheme [1].

[0] https://www.w3.org/community/webed/wiki/A_Short_History_of_J...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript