  A significant portion of the web is powered by ECMAScript. As a web
technology, it is ubiquitous and available on most platforms natively or
through a web browser. ECMAScript is the dominant language of the web, but at
the same time, it was not designed as such. The story of ECMAScript is a story
of the impact of standardization on the popularity of technology.
Simultaneously, the story shows how external pressures can shape a programming
language and how politics can mar the evolution of a standard. In this article,
we will go through the movements that led to the dominant position of
ECMAScript, evaluate the factors leading to it, and consider its evolution
using the Futures Triangle framework and the theory of standards wars.
