Re:Ask HN: Why didn't the early web support more client side...
by some_chap on Saturday July 31, 2021 @06:28AM
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> JavaScript, as I recall, was the answer to Java being crashy and slow on 50 MHz processors.
Not in the least - The early scripting language Mocha, was first renamed to LiveScript then Netscape and Sun did a license agreement and it became JavaScript. And the idea was to make it a complementary scripting language to go with Java, with the compiled language.
Purely marketing, to attempt to use the popularity of stand-alone Java for an in-browser scripting solution.
Not in the least - The early scripting language Mocha, was first renamed to LiveScript then Netscape and Sun did a license agreement and it became JavaScript. And the idea was to make it a complementary scripting language to go with Java, with the compiled language.
Purely marketing, to attempt to use the popularity of stand-alone Java for an in-browser scripting solution.