"Almost" is overstating it a bit. It's true that the original idea Eich was proposed with was "Scheme in the browser" but Sun moved in before Java was even offi

"Almost" is overstating it a bit. It's true that the original idea Eich was proposed with was "Scheme in the browser" but Sun moved in before Java was even officially announced by name. JavaScript was intended as a "companion language" to Java pretty much from the start. It's more realistic that we'd have ended up with VBScript dominating the browser landscape instead (Microsoft half-heartedly tried to acquire Netscape before the Sun deal and it's unlike Netscape would have lasted this long without the cooperation with Sun) and nobody wants to live in that timeline.