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		rprospero on July 1, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 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 [–]

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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