JavaScript (and TypeScript by extension) is making incredible inroads these days - no doubt about that. Imagine if Perl had been used in early browsers instead

JavaScript (and TypeScript by extension) is making incredible inroads these days - no doubt about that. Imagine if Perl had been used in early browsers instead of JavaScript -- it would have become ubiquitous in the early 2000s. But I predict the pendulum will begin swinging the other way as new toolchains around WebAssembly appear and grow in popularity. We'll see a resurgence of interest in novel/niche languages, and eventually another language (with a WebAssembly target and a small JavaScript runtime for the web) may come out on top.