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Scratch-Building an Operating System with Steve Klabnik

Software Unscripted

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JavaScript Is a JavaScript Language and It's a Scripting Language

The most recent example I can think of that doesn't fit that mold would be coffee script which is basically as I understand it like just Jeremy Ashkeness in his spare time. It's almost like a like a macro system or some syntax sugar on top of JavaScript which is all it was ever done to be yeah. If you compare that to something like rust or even like rock which is like way smaller in scope than rust and now we have two full-time people working on the project. That was never something I thought was gonna happen pre-1.0 but so the fact that we we ended up in this spot was pretty wild to me. Like Fortnite or Call of

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