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Proof that decades of firefighting can save you weeks of forethought.
> [He] was explicitly hired by Netscape to put a programming language in the browser (pg 7). Originally this was supposed Scheme, but then Netscape signed a deal with Sun and agreed to make it more "Java-like".

I still would love to have seen this alternate timeline.

Yes. However I love the fact that Euch continued to oversee it's lead and development in tc39, and a lot of credit goes to him where js is today