The Problem for Developers – Open Source and Non-Proprietary is Complicated, Part Two
/Programming languages that target a particular hardware or operating system platform, and are not open source, tend to support a small number of robust application frameworks. The canonical example is Apple’s Cocoa Framework built using the Objective-C language. The platform for JavaScript is the web browser – it does not target a particular hardware or operating system, and JavaScript has evolved in an open source eco-system. The original web browser started as simple document display software, and has evolved at an incredible rate to turn into the great feat of software engineering that the modern web browser truly is. This is why we have 64 JavaScript Frameworks to deal with!
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