JavaScript bloat

>"In 1998, a complex JavaScript application was a few dozen lines of code. By 2008, leading-edge Web applications like Hotmail, Gmail, and CNN.com included hundreds of thousands of lines of JavaScript," said the Microsoft JavaScript team members, Shanku Niyogi, Amanda Silver, John Montgomery, Luke Hoban, and Steve Lucco. "Today, there are Web applications with a million lines of JavaScript. These Web applications look more and more like the applications we run on our desktops."

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-57330431-264/microsoft-shoots-down-googles-dart-language/

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they make me wonder why it took so long for javascript to dominate

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they make me wonder why it took so int for javascript to dominate