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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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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.
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.