Why the hell the mutant-frankenstein language known as Javascript even exists?

Why back in the day couldn't they use an existing language's syntax for interacting with the web, Like Android did with Java?

Don't get me wrong, I like using js. But it has too many weird inconsistent parts which feel very quirky. Even more than Python.

Forget about any js hiccups and thank god that Internet Explorer has finally disappeared.

@tracktraps
It's not going anywhere. Where I work now and in my previous workplace it's still being widely used for legacy web apps, mainly those written as Java applets

Because there wasn't a scripting language suitable for this cause that had an engine available to them?

Remember, writing the compiler for the first version only took a couple of weeks. And if you avoid all the manuals that tell you have to badly fake features from other languages (like classes) and just learn the language you might find it's actually quite usable.

@tracktraps did it 😒😒 what do you call M$ Edge ?

@configurator and it is. Javascript is amazing 😬😬.

When a bad ideas, alcohol, drugs and a hate for the world love eachother soooo much(in a programmer). They hug eachother tightly and start an orgy where many stds are exchanged and they do unnatural things, and go on for so long that several generations later the orgy is still ongoing and has become incestuously as well.
And the last baby that is born from that is javascript.