[masklinn]

> Self (along with Scheme) was supposedly one of the big influences on Brendan Eich when he was creating JavaScript.

That's really doubtful. Self's delegation-based inheritance was expedient for quickly implementing an object model instead of having to build a class system, the influence never seems to have gone any deeper.

The one big influence on Javascript was Scheme, that was the original idea, when Netscape's execs asked for a more java-style language for marketing reasons, special-casing a single parent slot was an easy way to bolt an object system into the thing.

From what little I looked at it, delegation (through parent slots) is everywhere in Self, it's used for inheritance but also for mixins and scopes chaining and… It's not just an object model, it's a core semantic principle and tool.

[russellallen]

Brendan himself says:

I’m not proud, but I’m happy that I chose Scheme-ish first-class functions and Self-ish (albeit singular) prototypes as the main ingredients. The Java influences, especially y2k Date bugs but also the primitive vs. object distinction (e.g., string vs. String), were unfortunate.

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

[saurik]

The global object in JavaScript is also a scope and serves essentially the same purpose as the lobby in Self, and you can feel the same mechanism in play in JavaScript's with() statement.