> Could Google or Mozilla build support for another language into their browsers while developers gradually move away from JS? I recall a time when Mozilla was

> Could Google or Mozilla build support for another language into their browsers while developers gradually move away from JS? I recall a time when Mozilla was shipping Python until HTML5 kill it. HTML5 gave features front-end developers desperately needed whereas Python honestly did not. > Will developers be open to alternatives? If the alternatives are significantly better at solving their problems, sure. People are switching to React despite React seemingly going against the 20 year paradigm of programing web UIs. Why? Because the pattern works for many people (not all people). > Will we finally standardize on a simpler set of tools and frameworks? Do other languages have a simpler set of tools and frameworks, or they simply better at hiding the complexity from you? In my first programming class, we were shocked to see how a 2kb C source code file was turned into a 200kb executable file by the compiler. I've worked at companies using Java and Scala where I spend my first two days just getting the code to run. Is that tooling really that much easier? > Is TypeScript good enough? TypeScript is just a superset of JavaScript that adds in types. If your only complaint about JavaScript is the lack of types, then sure. I think the JavaScript world is going to get better and worse at the same time over the next five years. I'm certain that we have even more tooling (which many people complain about) around code quality. We aren't going to be just doing static analysis, we will have new machine learning libraries, written in JavaScript, to review code.