Study history or you, too, may be doomed to repeat it: https://devchat.tv/js-jabber/124-jsj-the-origin-of-javascript-with-brendan-eich https://devchat.tv/js-ja

Study history or you, too, may be doomed to repeat it: https://devchat.tv/js-jabber/124-jsj-the-origin-of-javascript-with-brendan-eich https://devchat.tv/js-jabber/124-jsj-the-origin-of-javascrip... (transcript at bottom) https://brendaneich.com/2012/04/the-infernal-semicolon/#comment-1133 https://brendaneich.com/2012/04/the-infernal-semicolon/#comm... Netscape management gave "make it look like Java" orders. There was no time, on top of this. Last (more below in another reply) no extant command line interpreter was ready to be put in a browser. Way too many non-portable OS dependencies, unsafe FFI, etc. It was JS or bust (aka VBScript).