Post #1708038
2026-04-26 23:50 UTC
"i hate javascript and wish it never existed"
monkey's paw curls, IE's influence ensured that clientside scripting on the web is all vbscript
Replies (6)
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@atax1a@infosec.exchange 2026-04-27 01:41
@Rairii@labyrinth.zone we would hope for Tcl because we heard of an early fork of netscape with that embedded
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@cinebox@masto.hackers.town 2026-04-26 23:52
@Rairii it was supposed to be hypercard it was supposed to be hypercard *it was supposed to be hypercard*
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@krishean@tech.lgbt 2026-04-27 00:17
@Rairii the web ui for active directory certificate services still contains huge chunks of vbscript code
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@Spider@mastodon.social 2026-04-27 07:49
@Rairii Perl would be a viable option back then. Imagine webperl.
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@remove_huilo@mas.to 2026-04-27 08:54
@Rairii client-side scripting should not exist.
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@rotopenguin@mastodon.social 2026-04-27 11:38
@Rairii if we stuck with ActiveX, you could plug in whichever client-side language you want.