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AMD - totally unrelated to processors

AMD  I have used javascript a lot and still can not fathom the messy selectors and callbacks. Being a part of a team that probably has millions of javascript code scattered in every page (before the rise of the SPAs (single page applications)) it is a real pain, not to mention dealing with browser support (don't get me started on this). I try to minimize my involvement in having to deal with javascript issues. But javascript tools are getting better thanks to  Chrome, FireBug and now WebStorm  javascript is now becoming a language of choice for web development. Javascript filled the gap of a much more responsive web ui. It vanquished having to wait for a response from  a web server. This responsiveness is now being utilized in mobile development as well. There is a lot happening in the javascript world Node.js, D3 just to mention a few and a lot more will happen. As javascript becomes a necessary tool in any software development, patterns and best practices emerges that ad