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by correct_horse 2240 days ago
They also picked javascript ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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JS has a better library-integration story than Go does, since there are so many JS implementations in other languages. Go drags all its runtime threads along with it.

But fair point :)

I used to hate JS, but honestly, it made a lot of really smart decisions for dynamic documents. Some decisions weren’t great, but somehow they didn’t go as far wrong as C++ managed to in the same era…
Browsers picked... until recently it was the only way to run in browsers.......