<offtopic>As someone obsessed with writing C code, something just clicked. I think I understand better why there are so many JavaScript programmers, so many tools and frameworks written in and around JS every day.
For me, C is the gateway to the computer. It's ubiquitous. It's deceptively simple. I can literally write anything I want in C. It's an exciting thing to have an open main.c file sitting in front of me.
That must be how JS developers feel about the browser. The browser is a natural way to start learning programming for someone new to it these days. When I was growing up, we didn't really have JS and the web was brand new. I had to learn from QBasic's "Help" menu!
I bet there's an age correlation, too. I bet over a certain age, it's way more C programmers, and under it is way more JS people. (And above us is probably FORTRAN and above them is probably COBOL.)</div>
For me, C is the gateway to the computer. It's ubiquitous. It's deceptively simple. I can literally write anything I want in C. It's an exciting thing to have an open main.c file sitting in front of me.
That must be how JS developers feel about the browser. The browser is a natural way to start learning programming for someone new to it these days. When I was growing up, we didn't really have JS and the web was brand new. I had to learn from QBasic's "Help" menu!
I bet there's an age correlation, too. I bet over a certain age, it's way more C programmers, and under it is way more JS people. (And above us is probably FORTRAN and above them is probably COBOL.)</div>