[greenkey]

I wish Matz had been there with Rubyscript. JS wasn’t as powerful back then; it took over a decade for it to evolve enough where people would really use it for much other than client-side validation and neat UI tricks. In comparison, Ruby was a great language to use, and it would’ve grown more quickly.

[toyg]

Ruby was first released on the same year. Python had been around for 4 years already. What could have been, eh...

[ptx]

There was (in 1995) a Python-based web browser called Grail[1] that could run client-side Python applets[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grail_(web_browser)

[2] http://grail.sourceforge.net/info/papers/restofus.html#apple...

[dan-robertson]

I wish they’d just used scheme

[colordrops]

Exactly - rubyscript would have been just as hated as javascript; something like scheme or some other well designed language would have been better.