Atwood's law
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'Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.'
Jeff Atwood coined it in 2007 as a half-joke about the web platform's gravity; then Node took JavaScript to servers, Electron took it to the desktop, and React Native took it to phones, and the joke became a roadmap. The law is really about reach: the runtime installed everywhere wins, quality arguments notwithstanding. Its spiritual successor is already circulating: anything that can be compiled to WebAssembly, will be.