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by lostcolony 1677 days ago
That's the DOM manipulation and browser behaviors, not Javascript itself.
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If you divorce JavaScript from the Dom you have removed it's entire reason for existence. So the dom is effectively part of the language. Just as the standard library is effectively part of C or Nim, etc. Without them they are considerably less useful.
You remove the reason -for its creation-. Not its reason for existence; Node is a thing, and doesn't touch the DOM. So, no, it's not effectively part of the language.