"Why not just make it a Java Framework? Does the world really need to learn another separate language just for making web pages?" -- someone in 199x when heari

"Why not just make it a Java Framework? Does the world really need to learn another separate language just for making web pages?" -- someone in 199x when hearing about how we were going to have JavaScript for the front-end. If you aren't writing your backend in JavaScript (and most projects aren't), then you have to learn another language anyway (until WebAssembly can sweep me off my feet, anyway), so it might as well not be JavaScript. Although hyperscript isn't production ready yet, for making things move around on a template-generated web page, JS seems to add a ton of complexity compared to something like this.