Imagine how much complexity, churn, standards etc. we could have avoided if they put a Scheme in Netscape (like they initially wanted). - language features lik

Imagine how much complexity, churn, standards etc. we could have avoided if they put a Scheme in Netscape (like they initially wanted). - language features like module loading, async, classes arrow functions etc. would be unnecessary or trivially implementable within the language - libraries like React et al would be much simpler - plenty of FP libraries would be either unnecessary or much simpler - things like "hot reloading" during dev time would be much simpler and actually work out of the box - simpler parsing and more cross pollination in terms of runtime performance - type annotations could be implemented trivially in user space, the runtime could evolve into respecting them for performance gains - tooling complexity would be much reduced because of all of the above