Web needs domain-specific declarative languages that are oriented toward non-programmers. W3C is often painted as a villain of some kind when it comes to HTML5,

Web needs domain-specific declarative languages that are oriented toward non-programmers. W3C is often painted as a villain of some kind when it comes to HTML5, but it's important to remember that there are different working groups and some of those groups were working on specifications that were sound, but never got browser support. In any case monopoly is bad. People are writing frameworks and languages that transpile to JS because they are not happy with the default option. In addition to more general VM there also should be a more robust standard library, that any language targeting it will have access to.