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TonyAlicea10today at 11:22 AM2 repliesview on HN

I always tell web developers I teach that the language of the internet isn’t JavaScript it’s C++.

Web devs are just users playing in a C++ dev’s program. ;)


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ivanjermakovtoday at 5:17 PM

Continuing the analogy, browser devs are just users playing in C/OS/kernel program.

criddelltoday at 1:41 PM

I tend to think of the web and the internet as distinct things.

For the language of the web I'd probably nominate HTML.

For the language of the internet it's a lot less clear to me.

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