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Discussion on: How much popularity does a software project need?

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Ben Halpern

Yeah, this is a really great point. A lot of the JS struggles have to do with how tightly they couple to the browser or whatever platform they run on, which will change out from under them.

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Ben Lovy • Edited

True enough - being a hosted language means there's a nice clean buffer between the dev and the platform