> I rather like millennials like Ryan Dahl that saw the potential for Javascript to be more than a browser scripting language. Not to take away from that achi

> I rather like millennials like Ryan Dahl that saw the potential for Javascript to be more than a browser scripting language. Not to take away from that achievement, but he wasn't the first one to implement this idea. The infamous ECMAScript 4 was supposed to be a more general purpose language. Also there were previous attempts at roughly the same in the form of e.g. Rhino[0]. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhino_(JavaScript_engine) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhino_(JavaScript_engine)