To me, it's more about choice of programming language than performance. Though the latter is very important, I think the former is what will open up doors to ma

To me, it's more about choice of programming language than performance. Though the latter is very important, I think the former is what will open up doors to making the browser a platform of choice (pun intended). Currently, it feels like JavaScript is the Comcast of the web. Everyone uses it, but that's only because there aren't any other options available to them.