No, I don't think we would have #Perl in our web browsers (and possibly everywhere else). But #JavaScript might have started less #Self-ish and a little more Perl-ish.
@mjgardner@Perl@BrendanEich There was a Mozilla project back in the day to migrate PHP, Python, and Perl to the browser at one point. It's a shame it didn't happen!
#Rakulang has some capability to do this with #WebASM but you don't get access to the DOM I don't think it's a maintained part of the Raku codebase. Also sad.
@KC1PYT@mjgardner@Perl@BrendanEich it actually happened. When I was in Spain (back in 1998), we had an interface that was in-browser, but written in Perl, with DOM integration...
@mjgardner@KC1PYT@Perl@BrendanEich Yeah, I think it was! You installed an ActiveX/DOM component (it also had the option of letting IE install it on its own rs)
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