[eksemplar]

Before JavaScript embraces lambdas, everyone thought they were a bad idea. You could say something similar about jit.

I know JS gets a lot of hate on hn, but if you look at the history of a lot of modern pl paradigms, many of them got traction after years of ridicule because JavaScript brought them to the masses.

[toyg]

Python had lambda in 1994. JS didn’t even exist then.

Face it - people use JS because the browser happened, not because it’s original in any meaningful way.

[eksemplar]

JS didn’t invent lambdas, it made them popular. Or is it just a coincidence that every major language that didn’t have them, adopted them after they got real use in JS?

[pjmlp]

Everyone that never put their foot into a CS degree.

Even Clipper had support for closures.