Comment by snek_case
12 days ago
JavaScript was originally developed in two weeks due to time constraints from Brendan Eich's employer. It would probably have just as many design mistakes if he had stuck with a scheme-like syntax instead. It's just hard to create a well-designed language in such a short amount of time.
Yes, Javascript is one of the seminal "sales already signed the contract" situations in tech.
Given the circumstances, it's amazing javascript isn't way worse.
It could have been VBScript.