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Oh they sure did. ES4 was going to very much be like Java, with static types and a fair bit of what TypeScript looks like today. We got very close to taking a completely different direction. It was ultimately doomed by IE among other things, which is ironic given Microsoft came up with TypeScript a decade later that does more or less the same thing as ES4 was meant to be. But it got scrapped and we got ES5 instead.
https://evertpot.com/ecmascript-4-the-missing-version/
I used to use IE when I was like 12~13
I think I switched to FF when I was 13.5 and never looked back. Just the tabs man. I use Pop_OS! these days and a few months ago I accedentally enabled tiling, then it I realized it has tabs. I am as happy as I were back then. Tabs are a concept that were thought of too late.
btw this document mentions JScript. I don't know WTF is that but when I google normal JS comes up.