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Why was this ever allowed to be a browser plugin


Because people wanted it and nobody thought too hard about it at the time.


because the web sucked in terms of functionality then, especially as an application delivery medium.

There is a parallel universe somewhere where Javascript was designed as a Turing incomplete basic interactivity template and now node runs ECMAFlash2019




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