You incorrectly presume that Brendan Eich has such great affection for Javascript. To paraphrase comments that Eich himself has made here on HN, he'd be the first to celebrate should JS be relegated to the dustbin of history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich
Brendan Eich (/'a?k/; born 1961)[1] is an American computer programmer and creator of the JavaScript scripting language. He is the chief executive officer at the Mozilla Corporation.
Can't speak for the downvoters, but the omission of Eich is kind of a trivial point to nitpick on. At this point I've probably read the 'Brendan Eich created Javascript in 10 days' story 50 times—and even heard it once from the man himself. I would be perfectly fine if Javascript books from here on out saved a few pages worth of dead trees and simply said "For more info on Javascript's creation, visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript"
If I remember correctly Brendan Eich was originally promised that he could build Self for Netscape, but later due to various reasons had to change the syntax and all that.
Also the popularity of javascript in the geekdom is in my recollection fairly recent phenomenon. It became interesting only after ajax, before that it was a leper like php.
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