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It's politics, not technology.

It's politics, not technology. One could make a browser scripted via python, but it would be an extreme minority position and would fail to gain adoption. One could add python support to any existing browser, but none of the stakeholders care enough to do it; they will always argue it is a waste of time because <insert other popular browser> doesn't do it. There is nothing about JavaScript that is uniquely suited to the browser, it just "won out". It's hard enough to get browser vendors to agree to standards at all, say nothing about multiple standards for a single feature.

Posted by moron4hire on Jun 28, 2015, 2:38 PM

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It's politics, not technology.

moron4hireJun 28, 2015, 2:38 PM

It's politics, not technology. One could make a browser scripted via python, but it would be an extreme minority position and would fail to gain adoption. One could add python support to any existing browser, but none of the stakeholders care enough to do it; they will always argue it is a waste of time because <insert other popular browser> doesn't do it. There is nothing about JavaScript that is uniquely suited to the browser, it just "won out". It's hard enough to get browser vendors to agree to standards at all, say nothing about multiple standards for a single feature.

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