cognitive psychology. PhD 
My two cents: JavaScript made it EXTREMELY low-friction to get functionality into the browser and that's why it won. We can complain about JS all day long but its shortcomings don't nullify the value it provides. It's only replaceable by something even easier to use.https://twitter.com/JofArnold/status/1415397774741417986 …
Not sure it makes sense to say JS "won" -- it couldn't lose, since browser vendors control the base scripting layer. Perhaps better to think in how incentives shape ecosystems? Huge group of web devs with many less experienced programmers => more demand for tools.
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Macromedia Flash lost. HyperCard lost. Java applets lost. VBScript lost. ActiveX lost. Some other technologies we haven't heard about lost. HTML, JavaScript and "web browsers" could have lost just as easily.
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For sure, the key bit IMO is that JS won because browsers won. It was attached to a revolutionary technology at the right time/place. I don't think the technical or usability merits of JS really matter by comparison.
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