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110 points jackdaniel | 2 comments | 21 Aug 25 12:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.421s | source
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adamddev1 ◴[21 Aug 25 13:43 UTC] No.44972696[source]▶
Ah, in an alternate world where Brendan Eich wasn't pressured by his superiors to make JS more Java-like, we could have had something like this as very normal.

I wonder how much faster that would have pushed the world into FP ideas. While sometimes I prefer the bracket/C syntax, I wonder how things would have evolved if JS was a lisp originally. Instead of things moving to TypeScript, would they be moving to something like typed Lisp or OCaml, or PureScript ?

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1. bitwize ◴[21 Aug 25 14:38 UTC] No.44973351[source]▶
The JS backend to Gambit is now pretty mature. If you're willing to deal with Scheme, Gambit, and its FFI, you can live in that alternate "Scheme in the browser" universe even without WASM.
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2. jackdaniel ◴[21 Aug 25 15:05 UTC] No.44973704[source]▶
There's also Guile Hoots compiling directly to WASM.