Supporting any additional language would've required integrating it into the browser engine. Which, in 1995, was pretty much either Netscape Navigator or Inter

Supporting any additional language would've required integrating it into the browser engine. Which, in 1995, was pretty much either Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer (2.0-ish.) Even Mozilla didn't exist before 1998. So, while I certainly can't make any statement on what was in people's heads at the time — I'm pretty sure trying to integrate a new scripting language into either of those two would've been a daunting task. And both of these vendors would have had some interest in making you not succeed. (MS pushing VBScript [later JScript], and Netscape had some major involvement in JavaScript AFAIR.) …oh and presumably your additional language wouldn't come included with the browser, and not having to install additional shit was kinda the entire point of JavaScript…