I’ve dabbled in JavaScript since college, made a few web pages here and there and while JS was always an enjoyable break from C or Java, I regarded it as a fairly limited language, imbued with the special purpose of serving up animations and pretty little things to make users go “ooh” and “aah”. It was the first language I taught anyone who wanted to learn how to code because it was simple enough
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