Samantically javascript is a mixture between self and scheme though, with a Java like syntax on top. Despite all it's warts caused by bad APIs and awkward stan

Samantically javascript is a mixture between self and scheme though, with a Java like syntax on top. Despite all it's warts caused by bad APIs and awkward standard library. The fundamental language is (semantically) quite nice. It really put a focus on data and data-literals, and having abstract arrays and associative array literals at the very core of the language has had a huge impact on programming languages in general. (more so than s-expressions had)