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"Yo, why are #JavaScript and its ecosystem so messy?!" ๐Ÿ˜ก

Well, I am glad you asked... Let me tell you a story! ๐Ÿค“

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For starting... #JavaScript was not designed to be the language that it is today!

JS was created in 1995 by @BrendanEich for Netscape, a web browser that was trying to come up with a language to make the web more interactive
@BrendanEich #JS wasn't related w/ #Java, so why did they call it Java-Script?! Duh! ๐Ÿ˜ณ

Java was trendy! it was possible to build interactive sites by embedding Java apps in pages (applets). So it was mostly a #mktg move: "JS: the lightweight Java alternative" or something like that I guess
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