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To anyone reading this article, only the first quarter of it is about the beliefs and political stance of the developers. The rest of the article after that goes into more technical reasons.
All I needed to read was in the first paragraph.
I mean, JS is his baby that's all there needs to be said about the person's motivations.
"JS is his baby that’s all there needs to be said about the person’s motivations."
"During these formative years of the Web, web pages could only be static, lacking the capability for dynamic behavior after the page was loaded in the browser. There was a desire in the flourishing web development scene to remove this limitation, so in 1995, Netscape decided to add a scripting language to Navigator. They pursued two routes to achieve this: collaborating with Sun Microsystems to embed the Java programming language, while also hiring Brendan Eich to embed the Scheme language."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript
I think you're confusing the reasons behind the initial intent of JS versus what it has evolved into almost 30 years later.
Imagine a world where Java integrated into the web was just as standard as JavaScript is now.
we were really close.... I remember lots of placeholders for where Java applets were meant to be
WASM is basically Java applets but standardised, even acting as a binary blob to run websites in. Web applications written in frameworks like Flutter just render a fullscreen `` element and use obfuscated code to render what looks like a web page to a fancy picture element.
We lost the buggy plugins and the security holes, but the idea of "put a blob in a browser and run it" just keeps getting reinvented by browsers.