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Like two-time WWE Champion Daniel Bryan, Javascript demands respect[/caption]
Yes, it's true. Javascript is so popular it can now be a full-time job. Many people used to coast through their daily jobs as a PHP, Rails, Java developer with a few
$(..)
statements, maybe a
$('#message').hide() (
or a
$('#message').slideUp();
if you were hip).
But these days, Javascript is coming of age. It's grown from being a scrappy little toy we have loved and abused with code like
onclick="alert('...')"
, to be something that has grown up with us, and now appreciate. It is the only runtime language I can think of that will run on any modern processing device. It's ubiquitous and the ecosystem has evolved beyond what anyone could have imagined, with many implementations (Rhino, V8, now Nashorn) and it's very own matching server-side equal,
node.js
29 October, 2013
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