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I don't have a good source for this but supposedly Brendan Eich wanted to embed Scheme into Netscape, what a world that would have been.

• dgb23 4y ago
  JavaScript was inspired by Scheme and Self. It’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing in that way. But yes, a Scheme would have solved so many issues and churn that we have to deal with. However people are scared by Lisps so there’s that.
  • aneil 4y ago
    Specifically, some manager at Mozilla was scared of it.
  • native_samples 4y ago
    Er, why? Most of the churn isn't to do with JS as a language.
    • uvtc 4y ago
      I think it's partly due to: people like regular garden-variety arrays and hashmaps, and don't want to use car, cdr, cons. I like my array and hashmap literals.
• agumonkey 4y ago
  Maybe better everything or maybe a culture of (set! ...). everywhere, just like auto lisp :). Saying this because I believe lost of the web crowd wasn't ready for function oriented programming at the time.