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What else was there, besides VBscript, or whatever Microsoft was calling it then? Even if we're only talking hypotheticals, at what point would anyone have atte
by NoMoreNicksLeft 4y ago
What else was there, besides VBscript, or whatever Microsoft was calling it then? Even if we're only talking hypotheticals, at what point would anyone have attempted to release an alternative?
Everything was mucked up well into the 2010s with everyone chasing IE compatibility. And not even 3 years later, Chrome had taken over the world. That's a really brief window for anything to happen.
- VyseofArcadia 4y agoWhat else was there? Plenty of stuff! It could have been a lisp, it could have been a flavor of pascal, python was around even if it wasn't popular yet. Thank heavens we didn't end up with a flavor of BASIC, although as you point out it could have happened.
- hnal943 4y agojs is pretty lispy. Crockford is pretty compelling that the reason js survived (and beat Java which was the heir apparent) is because of the attributes it inherited from Scheme.
- hnal943 4y agoThe idea at the turn of the century is that Java Applets would be the way web applications would be developed. That was a disaster for security, ux, etc.