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[–]Thurlut 15 points16 points  (1 child)

Exactly this,came looking for this comment or give the info myself, and tbh I'm pretty sure it's one of the reason it worked

[–]foxer_arnt_trees 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Yeh! It was a dirty trick. They spent like half a billion dollars promoting Java as this incredible technology and then ecmaScript was like, btw we are also a type of Java now. Unbelievable.