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Re:John Carmack working on Scheme as a VR scripting language by toyg on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @08:17AM (#9811332)
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.
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Re:John Carmack working on Scheme as a VR scripting language by rprospero on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @09:06AM (#9811549)
Technically, it did have to compete with VBScript, back when IE had browser dominance and VBScript support.
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Re:John Carmack working on Scheme as a VR scripting language by toyg on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @09:16AM (#9811584)
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.
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