Atwood's Law

English Etymology en Q4703800 2007 (see quotation below). Proper noun en programming humorous A tongue-in-cheek "law" of software development stating that "any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript." en w:Jeff Atwood The Principle of Least Power w:Coding Horror https://web.archive.org/web/20240207002550/https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-principle-of-least-power/ 17 July 2007 This was later codified in a more formal W3C document, The Rule of Least Power. I propose a corollary to this rule, which in the spirit of recent memes, I'll call Atwood's Law: any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript. en Eric Elliott Programming JavaScript Applications Sebastopol, C.A. O'Reilly 2014 2 https://archive.org/details/programmingjavas0000elli/page/2/mode/1up 9781491950296 Since that time, web developers have produced nearly every type of application, including full-blown, cloud-based office suites (see Zoho.com), social APIs like Facebook's JavaScript SDK, and even graphically intensive video games. ¶ All of this is serving to prove Atwood's Law (http://bit.ly/1pFCjtR): "Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript." Further reading en eponyms en JavaScript