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by Michiel 5148 days ago
There was JavaScript (including the good parts) before Douglas Crockford started disseminating his ideas about the language and long before jQuery was released. So it was like a powerful and possibly quite elegant language all along, but it needed to be 'discovered' and 'evangelized'.

With respect to JavaScript, it's like front-end developers are all enlightened today, after living in the dark ages for about 10 years.