Ask HN: Why didn't the early web support more client side languages?
18 by dcminter | 46 comments on Hacker News.
Disclaimer: I'm a backender so I may have this all wrong :) The script element in HTML has provided the language property since its introduction, though nowadays it is deprecated in favour of the type attribute. But the browser-supported languages seems to have been almost entirely Javascript and VBScript. Given that Javascript is considered to be an at best quirky [0] language (justifiably given its 10 day gestation) how come the browser ecosystem never expanded to accommodate more direct scripting languages - particularly in the early days when Javascript libraries were rare beasts? As I remember it Javascript was deeply unpopular with devs until libraries like JQuery came along to make things a little less painful. Was it the baleful influence of IE6 or some other winner-takes-all effect or what? [0] https://ift.tt/3BVOdKd
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