>Javascript never really had a chance to "take over the world" before Google released Chrome and the V8 engine.
Chrome was released at the end of 2008, JavaScript was thriving way before that. We had Gmail since 2004, jQuery since 2006. WebApps were the “sweet solution” considered for iPhone apps at first in 2007. Chrome exists because of the healthy ecosystem that Firefox and Safari provided, not the other way around.
>It's pretty close to just good old assembly.
Precisely, and it's yet to be proven that's the best solution for the Web. I love it from the computer science perpective, but historically that idea hasn't struck a chord.
Chrome was released at the end of 2008, JavaScript was thriving way before that. We had Gmail since 2004, jQuery since 2006. WebApps were the “sweet solution” considered for iPhone apps at first in 2007. Chrome exists because of the healthy ecosystem that Firefox and Safari provided, not the other way around.
>It's pretty close to just good old assembly.
Precisely, and it's yet to be proven that's the best solution for the Web. I love it from the computer science perpective, but historically that idea hasn't struck a chord.