IMHO, a single, simple, and flexible language has greatly helped the web become ubiquitous. I think that javascript has been a key ingredient to the web's growt

IMHO, a single, simple, and flexible language has greatly helped the web become ubiquitous. I think that javascript has been a key ingredient to the web's growth and it might not have been the same if a more "powerful" or "standard" language/jvm was shoehorned in.