If that is true then why did it take over a decade to achieve even the most modest of popularity? The web was already popular and JavaScript had long since bee

If that is true then why did it take over a decade to achieve even the most modest of popularity? The web was already popular and JavaScript had long since been available. > It could never have survived on its own in the wild. People continue to say that about Lisp and Haskell. > A Javascript developed as a project not connected to the web would likely receded into obscurity like Pike. That sounds like a logical fallacy. Surely the result would be different had the conditions not been the same, but guessing at a result derived from conditions that never happened is fantasy.