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  • This clearly shows how chaotic development of javascript really was.

    It has always been like:

    1. Design a language for small browser scripts
    2. People suddenly start using it somewhere else
    3. It turns out it does not fit to where people try to use it
    4. Hundreds of frameworks appear to fix this, milion standards appear, people fight for years to work out a single go-to solution
    5. Return to point 2












  • A few things to point out:

    • Microsoft created this extension and pays money to develop it
    • Despite that, they give it to programmers for free. It is still free of charge.
    • They explicitly said that using it outside of their products is forbidden (according to article: at least 5 years ago), they just didn’t enforce it
    • Someone (here: Cursor developers), despite that, used it in their products and started to make money from it

    What exactly are you mad at? When will programming community finally understand that Microsoft is not a non-profit company and its primary purpose is to make money?