The frontend would be so much better if Eich had shipped scheme.
ES6 wouldn’t have been needed. CSS-in-JS would have become standard decades ago. HTML would have almost disappeared too because parsing s-expressions would have been native. JSON would never been invented either due to S-expr.
In short, everything about the modern web would have appeared decades sooner and been more consistent.
Natural language has parentheses. Math notation has those and different kinds of brackets, too. But tell me, what language has closing tags? A language for parrots?
Only half joking, it's same principle as how indentation-based Python ate world, while languages with `begin` and `end` keywords like Ruby and Pascal are hardly to be seen these days
ES6 wouldn’t have been needed. CSS-in-JS would have become standard decades ago. HTML would have almost disappeared too because parsing s-expressions would have been native. JSON would never been invented either due to S-expr.
In short, everything about the modern web would have appeared decades sooner and been more consistent.