I started writing about machine learning (ML) in JavaScript in 2010. At the time, Node.js was brand new and JavaScript was just beginning to come into its own as a language. For much of the history of the internet, JavaScript had been seen as a toy language, used to create simple dynamic interactions on web pages.
The perception of JavaScript began to change in 2005 with the release of the Prototype JavaScript Framework, which aimed to simplify AJAX requests and help developers deal with cross-browser XMLHttpRequest. The Prototype Framework also introduced the familiar dollar function as an alias for `document.getElementById`: `$(“myId”)`, for instance.
One year later, John Resig released the wildly popular jQuery library. ...
