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by wiseowise 8 days ago
Multiple generations of your family will be long dead before last JS instruction gets executed. Unless there's going to happen a global thermonuclear war. I still bet on JS surviving over most humans.
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The same is true of COBOL and Fortran. But also for most purposes, they are practically* dead.

* With the one exception of BLAS which is widely used via NumPy