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While it certainly has good points besides platform ubiquity, if you were trying to derive an equivalent of big-O for the popularity of javascript, language level criticisms and acclamations would count as, at best, linear concerns, where platform ubiquity is an exponential concern.

Platform ubiquity is so completely important in the determination that all other concerns can be ignored entirely.

Given a choice of supporting half of systems in javascript, and all systems in brainfuck, people would begin writing brainfuck-targeting compilers immediately.




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