> JavaScript is a domain-specific language in that it is tailored to the
> runtime environment inside a web browser.
Sorry for jumping in the conversation that late, but I want to address this.
JavaScript was used in the web servers that Netscape had, and that was at the
very beginning of JS history. Right now JavaScript might be winning some extra
popularity because of Node.js and the fact that many phone OSs support a web
runtime that allows access to native APIs, but JavaScript had popularity as an
embedded scripting language since long, long time ago.
See some examples:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javascript#Uses_outside_web_pages
Some of the examples are recent, but some have been successful uses of
JavaScript as an embedded scripting language that prove that is a nice choice
for that purpose.
A complete different story is the fact that, obviously, dropping VimL in favor
of any other language would be a move that probably would alienate the user
and developer community.
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