Quit your fibbing! I joined Netscape on April 4, 1995, to "do Scheme in the browser". Immediately I was out of luck on several fronts:
* Put on the server team with the McCool twins (NCSA httpd and then Netscape's reboot of same) and Ari Luotonen (proxy guy), working on "HTTP1.1-lol".
* Told Java was in play with Sun -- the deal was not done but it was likely to go forward in Netscape 2 -- so maybe never mind about Scheme, but:
* If there was to be a "scripting language", it had to look like Java.
Kipp Hickman (Netscape first floor, and my kernel hacking colleague from SGI) and I wrote the "Netscape Portable Runtime", NSPR 1.0, the "large software libraries" you allude to, in April and May.
Kipp used NSPR for his Java VM prototype, which Sun helped convince him to abandon (single-source implementation required or else bug-for-bug compatibility would be a nightmare).
So, much of that "dealing with virtual machine-type problems" code was from me, not from some anonymous and non-existent team at Netscape who had "months" ahead of May to develop at leisure.
When I switched to the client team in early May, @pmarca and I had been conspiring (with Bill Joy of Sun on-side; he signed the trademark license for "JavaScript" in early December, 1995). Marc made the case for "a language you put directly in the HTML" -- not something you compile into an applet. This idea got enough support for me to spend ten days, a week bracketed by weekends without much sleep, hacking the first "Mocha" runtime.
I spent the rest of the spring and summer embedding that Mocha, then LiveScript, interpreter into Netscape 2's rendering engine and network library; I had help from the front end hackers (@jwz and Spence Murray on the XFE; @knobchouck and Garrett Blythe on WinFE; Aleks Totic on MacFE), who did all the native control integration; we collaborated on the front-to-back-end API.
During these months, the only file I didn't write in the original JS implementation was mo_date.c, the Date object. Ken Smith, who joined from Borland with three others as a team, helped do that by closely porting Gosling's JDK1.0-prerelease java.util.Date code from Java to C.
Why you are making up facts now, I have no idea. If you have some overriding animus against JS or me (or both), take up a better argument than making up false history. That inevitably blows back.
If you can't believe I wrote as much code as I did, you should see what TJ Hollowaychuk has done in the last few years. But yeah, I was writing lots of C code then.
If you want to see others testify to my account-in-brief given above, check Quora (http://www.quora.com/In-which-10-days-of-May-did-Brendan-Eic..., http://www.quora.com/Did-JavaScript-evolve-from-another-prod... [other witnesses testify there], http://www.quora.com/How-did-ScriptEase-influence-the-design... [refutes an obsolete fraud to-do with NOMBAS]), listen to the JS Jabber show from last fall, and ask anyone who was around then. I've given some twitter handles above.