I think this is important.  Probably because I have the &quot;worse is better&quot; article from 1991 open in another tab, and if you s&#x2F;Lisp&#x2F;Javascript&#x2F;g then many of the criticisms ring true.  Some of what made Unix, Windows, and Mac OS healthy environments for development was the fact that all developers were equally well off, you didn&#x27;t have to pay a tax for writing something in a language other than Lisp.  You could keep your Fortran code, and mix it into a C program, run from a Bourne shell, running in terminal emulator written in C and a WM written in Lisp.  You can replace any part with a part written in a different language.<p>JavaScript will continue to be dominant, but we desperately need to be able to write things in the language of our choice.