Javascript certainly has come a long way since Brendan Eich’s original conception back in 1995. People like Douglas Crockford and John Resig have pioneered development throughout the years to which it’s now possible to develop server-side applications with frameworks based on Javascript such as Backbone.js and Node.js.
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