[TeMPOraL]

We were so close. Twice, JavaScript had a chance to be Scheme; both times marketing reasons prevailed (first, to capitalize on the marketing spending of Java; later, to compete against Microsoft's JScript).

If Scheme was the language of the web, then HTML and CSS being represented as s-expressions would be the most obvious next steps, and we'd be like 15 years ahead in terms of progress.

[seanmcdirmid]

Marketing and popularity aren’t unrelated.

[Razengan]

Popularity can be faked through marketing.

[TeMPOraL]

Popularity is created through marketing.

[seanmcdirmid]

Popularity can only be faked via shills and poll rigging. Perhaps you mean something else?

[buckminster]

You say that like marketing and shilling are two wholly distinct activities. Have you heard of Instagram?

[seanmcdirmid]

One is people pretending to like something or wrongly saying people like something. The other is people liking something for the wrong reasons. These are completely two different concepts.