Not "from VCs". Marc was not a VC then, Netscape's investors didn't direct any of our strategic or tactical moves. Bill Joy at Sun also supported JS as scriptin

Not "from VCs". Marc was not a VC then, Netscape's investors didn't direct any of our strategic or tactical moves. Bill Joy at Sun also supported JS as scripting language for Java, and signed the trademark license. Excerpt on the early days and why we did JS (part of 3 hour Lex Fridman interview): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0ZWtsYyX8E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0ZWtsYyX8E HOPL paper: https://hopl4.sigplan.org/details/hopl-4-papers/10/JavaScript-The-First-20-Years https://hopl4.sigplan.org/details/hopl-4-papers/10/JavaScrip...