The Web Unscripted: A World Without JavaScript

Jonathan Fielding
4 min readMay 29, 2023
Photo by Unseen Studio on Unsplash

In September 1995, Brandan Eich famously developed a new scripting language in just ten days. Initially, it was called LiveScript however, the name was quickly changed to JavaScript, and it grew up and evolved into the programming language we know and love today.

While enjoying my bank holiday weekend, I wondered what the world would be like if none of this had happened and…

--

--

Jonathan Fielding

Staff Engineer working for @Spendesk, speaker about web things, writing about tech, contributor to open source. If you like what I write make sure to follow.