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Comment by fiddlerwoaroof | Hacker News Reader

What I’ve always wanted is scheme in the browser.

There was a fork in the road of history, where that could have been the future we live in..

> In 1995, Netscape hired Brendan Eich with the promise of letting him implement Scheme (a Lisp dialect) in the browser.

How JavaScript Was Created - http://speakingjs.com/es5/ch04.html

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> Whether that language should be Scheme was an open question, but Scheme was the bait I went for in joining Netscape. Previously, at SGI, Nick Thompson had turned me on to SICP.

> ..The diktat from upper engineering management was that the language must “look like Java”. That ruled out Perl, Python, and Tcl, along with Scheme.

https://brendaneich.com/2008/04/popularity/

Yeah, I know this history well.

Like this? https://github.com/biwascheme/biwascheme

No, like

    <script type=“text/scheme”>

I also wish browsers had built out the ability to plug-in interpreters for processing script tags.

Here, https://github.com/google/schism

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