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+# JavaScript
+JavaScript, also known as JS or by its standard name ECMAScript is a scripting programming language created by Brendan Eich in 1995
+at Netscape. Despite its name, JavaScript has nothing to do with [Java](java.md), the "java" part was simply a marketing stunt.
+
+Originally a client side language (executing on the browser); some guy called Ryan Dahl had the excellent idea of extracting Chrome's
+V8 JS engine and making it into a standalone program, naming it Node.js. After that JS escaped containment
+and became a language used in the server side too.
+
+JavaScript is known for being a bloated language, specially in the last decade where it exploded in popularity, mainly among "coders".
+The average JS program has a ridiculous amount of dependencies, mainly fueled by the incompetence of its users, where even trivial things
+to implement become a package with millions of weekly downloads. See the left-pad incident, where its creator ragequited npm after a
+quarrel with some company, he nuked all his packages (including left-pad); thus chaos and lulz ensured.
+And this is server-side JS, client-side JS is just as bad, where "web developers" instead of writing HTML, CSS and using the builtin
+DOM functions use gigantic and slow frameworks. This is why the average web page in 2025 has a size above 1MB.
+
+Wait, its actually worse; another guy had another brilliant idea: turning JS into a language for "desktop" development. That is, Electron.
+Electron is basically just Chrome, with all its implications, extremely high memory consumption (both RAM and disk).
+
+No serious program should be written in JavaScript. Client-side JavaScript should be sparingly used, and only to **augment** a page
+functionality. Any decent webpage should work without JS.
+
+## See also
+- [Bloat](bloat.md)