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We don't know that, it is very likely that Mozillas language would never have become standard if it was scheme instead of Javascript.
by username90 7y ago
We don't know that, it is very likely that Mozillas language would never have become standard if it was scheme instead of Javascript.
- timbit42 7y agoEven if it wasn't, we wouldn't have ended up with JavaScript and the odds are we'd have something better.
- krapp 7y agoIIRC, the only actual browser scripting language competitor to Javascript at the time was Microsoft's VBScript, and that probably would have won. There was never really a third option on the table, just "what Microsoft did" and "something else."
- jhayward 7y agoIt would probably have been FutureSplash Animator, which became Macromedia Flash and then Adobe Flash. For a long time Flash was the de-facto web scripting language.
- thaumasiotes 7y agoFlash is scripted with a language eerily similar to JavaScript -- so similar that I assumed it was derived directly from JavaScript. In the hypothetical world where JavaScript was lisp... wouldn't Flash use that?
- jhayward 7y agoI think you're probably referring to Actionscript, which came much later in Flash's evolution and was indeed very much similar to javascript.
- pjmlp 7y agoActually there was, you could use Perl and Python as well via browser plugins. ActiveState used to develop them.