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facepalm on June 8, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: JavaScript as an alternative to AppleScript on OS ...

Why don't people like you recognize the greatness of JavaScript?

Which language would be preferable? Perhaps Lua? Not much else with comparable simplicity comes to mind.

pirateking on June 8, 2014 | [–]

Scheme.

poweribo on June 9, 2014 | [–]

good thing these other nicer languages compiles to javascript: typescript, kotlin, clojurescript

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