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Very simple explanation for the increase in usage of JavaScript in 2020: increase in required notices.
It is not surprising that we see this increase at all, considering the massive influx of required notices that would Masters are obligated to have presidents on variscite for legal reasons, whereas increase views hears these particular notices either did not exist or were not required. I’m referring of course to things such as cookie usage, gdpr, California privacy notification, adult content warning, etcetera.
The type of code that is used to power 99% of these particular types of notices? Guess what? JavaScript…
The only surprise in this is that the Gap isn’t larger. Just my humble opinion. Not really a revelation here in this article.
Just a small spelling issue found on the JS section. Image attached.
Thanks for pointing that out @chrislachance! We’ve got a fix queued up in a PR on GitHub. cc @tkadlec
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