I wish JavaScript had been more like NewtonScript with Java influenced syntax instead of NS's Pascal-ish parts. Plus NewtonScript's frame and two parents was much nicer.
I wish IO or Self had been more successful, just to see how far one could push a pure prototyping language. IO is more flexible than JS, in that it has (almost) no syntax, just messages to objects, which means you can completely modify the syntax, making DSLs a natural fit for the language.
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I wish JavaScript had been more like NewtonScript with Java influenced syntax instead of NS's Pascal-ish parts. Plus NewtonScript's frame and two parents was much nicer.
I wish IO or Self had been more successful, just to see how far one could push a pure prototyping language. IO is more flexible than JS, in that it has (almost) no syntax, just messages to objects, which means you can completely modify the syntax, making DSLs a natural fit for the language.