Entries published on February 16, 2007

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The JavaScript knowledge gap

JavaScript is a paradox of a language. It has nearly universal availability in its target market — client-side Web scripting — and is a major component of “Web 2.0”, but very few people actually write or even really know JavaScript. Many “modern” web-development frameworks remove the need for that by offering direct translation from some other language to JS, or by offering “helpers” which generate and include JavaScript automatically. And even among the few folks who don’t use those tools, most prefer to work entirely within the confines of a particular set of libraries.

So JavaScript is one of the …

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