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When the people designing the language are the same people providing the implementation, it leads to vendor lock in. Remember Microsoft in the 1990's, remember

When the people designing the language are the same people providing the implementation, it leads to vendor lock in. Remember Microsoft in the 1990's, remember the massive Antitrust case about IE?

uiri 10y ago
The antitrust case about IE was related to Microsoft using their position in the operating system market to give them an unfair advantage in the browser market. It had nothing to do with the embrace-extend-extinguish which they attempted on JavaScript.
- snerbles 10y ago
  They couldn't feasibly attempt EEE on JS without Internet Explorer's dominant market share.
- euyyn 10y ago
  Plus the advantage they wanted in the browser market (to strangle Netscape dead, in their own words) was purposefully to artificially maintain their monopoly in the OS market.
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