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Impact.js creator's Letter to John Carmack

After watching the Quakecon 2012 keynote by Game-dev god John Carmack, Impact.js creator Dominic Szablewski felt like responding to John’s views on WebGL and JavaScript with a letter.

He’s posted the letter on this blog, which makes a number of good points, which can be summed up by the final line:

“Don’t hate JavaScript. It’s our generation’s Apple II.”

What he means by this is that the ease with which people got into programming on the Apple II is paralleled by the development environment provided by the browser, which is installed on billions of computers worldwide and makes development accessible to anyone with having to download or configure a dev environment.

It’s a great letter (stay away from the comments though, as a lot of them miss the point) my thoughts are here, in a similar vein.

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