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Unpopular Opinion

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[–] msage@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Because, as you already very well know, things don't happen because they make sense, or because people who know stuff think something is a good idea.

Things happen because enough people got into it. That's it.

And even if everybody wished JS to die, it simply won't, because people need to get paid, and devs already in the ecosystem won't switch, cause switching is expensive.

[–] jaykrown@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Things happen because enough people got into it.

If it was a popular opinion then people wouldn't have gotten into it.

[–] msage@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

Even if it was popular by 60%, the rest is still a lot of people.