we'll never know what could have happened to JavaScript if browsers supported more than a language (Lisp, for example, Brendan Eich plan was to write Scheme for

we'll never know what could have happened to JavaScript if browsers supported more than a language (Lisp, for example, Brendan Eich plan was to write Scheme for the browser but then Java came out, Netscape had a deal with Sun already and so JavaScript was born) When things were not settled like they are today, Microsoft IE supported multiple languages and many people were using VBscript because it made more sense than JavaScript at the time. Also, many new languages that transpile to JavaScript exist, because, well, for many people JS simply sucks. I hear TypeScript is pretty big in that space. Who knows if JS will survive WASM that promise to free programmers from having to use a single language to write web apps.