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by kawa 3970 days ago
The browser is the "de facto operating system" for the web and javascript is its programming language. Javascript really is the new BASIC...
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marcelluspye 3970 days ago
That's a big stretch. Javascript is underneath everything in the web, but users aren't forced to interact with it every time they open their browser.
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nsxwolf 3970 days ago
And the average Chrome user is not likely to discover View->Developer->JavaScript Console, and enter console.log("Hello world!")

They aren't meant to.

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