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		sorpaas on April 30, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You probably don't need a JavaScript framework Greenspun's tenth rule: Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp. Now let's add Javascript to the list.

Dr_tldr on April 30, 2016 [–]

The good news is that with V8 and ES2015, we now have a formalized, (fairly) fast, and tolerably buggy implementation of Half of Common Lisp. Oh yeah, and it runs natively on devices owned by literally billions of people.

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