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by seangrogg 2395 days ago
Semantics, but JavaScript itself is not a "web technology" - despite being conceived for the purpose of web scripting the original publication for version 1 even calls out that the language can be used on a variety of host environments (not limited to browsers). This can largely be seen in host environments like Node.js where it acts like any other similar language.
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jolmg 2395 days ago
By that logic, CSS is not a web technology because it can also be used in GUI toolkits like GTK[1]. HTML is used in ePUB files[2], so I guess it's not a web technology either...

Would protocols that use HTTP for transport like gRPC[3] mean that HTTP is not a web technology either? I don't know what is a web technology anymore...

[1] https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/chap-css-overview.ht...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRPC

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