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rprospero
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John Carmack working on Scheme as a VR scripting l...
Technically, it did have to compete with VBScript, back when IE had browser dominance and VBScript support.
toyg
on July 1, 2015
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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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