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It's the mid-2000s. JavaScript and PHP are running the web scene. Both, uncontrollable hot mess alcoholics. The absolute worst. You don’t want to stand downwind of either of them.

Years pass. Both get their shit together thanks to a tireless global effort.

Yet only one becomes a run away success. The other slowly loses its grip.

What happened?

JS was a family member. PHP was a friend of the family. When they were a mess, we only had to invite one of them to the parties. The other was easily tossed away.

Had we had a JS alternative in browsers would JS have survived? JS asks itself this question every night before bed. Luck, or talent.

Luck, my prototypical friend.