Jun 2, 2017 · All you need is a browser and a text editor (and the most popular ones, Sublime and Atom, are free and easy to use). Because JavaScript does not require any special compilers or editors, it is...

Aug 6, 2018 · I like to say I’m a reluctant JavaScript developer — I’m not particularly fond of the language, but Atwood’s Law (“any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript”) means I can’t get away with not writing some.

Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript. -- Jeff Atwood, 2009. Ultimately this law concerns software distribution: the web is the best mechanism for distributing software, JavaScript is the language of the web, hence Atwood’s law.

Nov 9, 2024 · This is perhaps best summarized by Atwood’s Law: “Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.” So named by developer Jeff Atwood, the law...

Dec 3, 2020 · It became famous for its accurate statement that Any application that can be written in Javascript, will eventually be written in Javascript. Although that alone was funny on how true it is, one comment caught my attention.

Jan 3, 2018 · “Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.” — Jeff Atwood, Author, Entrepreneur, Cofounder of StackOverflow

Aug 10, 2011 · Javascript is just a standard, more formally known as ECMAScript. It can be implemented in any language, just like any standard. Chrome's Javascript engine, V8, is written in C++. From the project page: V8 is written in C++ and is used in Google Chrome, the open source browser from Google.

Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript. The real story is: nodejs (or v8) allows developers to write applications in Javascript that can be executed outside a browser. This makes Javascript as powerful as Python or Ruby.

Nov 25, 2020 · In the summer of 2007 Jeff Atwood jokingly wrote "Atwood's Law" any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript. link to his oringal post Here we are 13 years later and well the joke is on the developer community. For all the talk about how bad JavaScript is Javascript won. I love ruby

Apr 22, 2016 · Atwood’s Law states that: “Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.” Of course, Jeff Atwood was making a joke at JavaScript’s expense, but it has turned out to be more true than not.