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  • “JS is his baby that’s all there needs to be said about the person’s motivations.”

    During these formative years of the Web, web pages could only be static, lacking the capability for dynamic behavior after the page was loaded in the browser. There was a desire in the flourishing web development scene to remove this limitation, so in 1995, Netscape decided to add a scripting language to Navigator. They pursued two routes to achieve this: collaborating with Sun Microsystems to embed the Java programming language, while also hiring Brendan Eich to embed the Scheme language.”

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript

    I think you’re confusing the reasons behind the initial intent of JS versus what it has evolved into almost 30 years later.









  • I don’t think Jerboa supports ‘native notifications’ which means it relies on other services (such as Google Play Services) in order to push notifications to your phone. Some applications (such as Fairmail, F-Droid) don’t rely on Google’s services and use the OS’s native notification abilities.