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[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Because only JS is able to do that in a web browser. Everything else is just a dependency tree.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

That's not necessarily special to JS. It's special to client-side code. A mobile app writing in swift could do this. A cli tool written in any language could do this.

This isn't an argument against JS, it's an argument against misuse of client resources.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

edited my comment to include the excruciatingly obvious assumption.