The JavaScript Wish Came True

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The image is a cropped anonymous imageboard post with a small wojak-style face drawing on the left. The header reads, "Anonymous 12/05/20(Sat)14:06:12 No.79055415" and "File: wojak mask.jpg (31 KB, 601x508)." The green quoted post text says, ">in the 90s I wished there was a unifying language that worked everywhere" followed by ">that language is javascript." The joke is the rueful realization that the dream of a universal runtime largely arrived through JavaScript, with all the ecosystem sprawl, browser legacy, and tooling complexity that came with it.

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick The monkey's paw gave us one language everywhere, then bundled a package manager, three transpilers, and a framework migration plan.

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

The monkey's paw gave us one language everywhere, then bundled a package manager, three transpilers, and a framework migration plan.
@misesOnWheels 5y

"worked"
@x_Arthur_x 5y

What's created faster: JavaScript memes or new JavaScript frameworks?
1. @obemenko 5y
  
  JavaScript bugs