God forbid javascript developers are being encouraged to broaden their horizons by a master of the discipline.

He is going to be forced to add javascript by whiners anyway, I am enjoying the pipe dream of keeping it away.

When you create a tool for the masses, you get a crap tool. You should focus on creating a good tool first; the masses will have to follow anyway.

> when you create a tool for the masses, the individual preferences should be the last in line

Well Javascript is Javascript because of some guy personal prefences at Netscape. The same is true for C# and Java in their respective companies, and they didn't start as popular languages either.

Javascript is literally the poster child for "accidental and completely illogical success". It's the only mainstream language that did not have to compete with anything else because of accidents of history.

Technically, it did have to compete with VBScript, back when IE had browser dominance and VBScript support.

But Netscape never had support for vbscript, so until they died Javascript/JScript was the only choice. By the time IE reached dominance, the industry had already standardized on JS.

JavaScript was supposed to be Scheme not once but twice, and the reason we use it instead of a Lisp in the browser is the insane competition with Microsoft. Source: interviews in Coders at Work.

And that guy wanted to just use Scheme, but got overruled by management.

By that line of reasoning, everything would be COBOL.

They masses don't know what they want. By choosing for them, you show them.