We'll just have a Babel of dialects, pun intended. There might not be a technical reason for having JS, but there's a social one -- we've got plenty of people w

We'll just have a Babel of dialects, pun intended. There might not be a technical reason for having JS, but there's a social one -- we've got plenty of people who call themselvs "JavaScript programmers", and people tend to be set in their ways to an awful degree. I mean, on the backend, there's no ultimate technical reason why you couldn't switch -- the closest you can come to the browser situation is the limited PHP hoster of the early oughts -- and still we don't see a rapid progress away from awful languages. Just more people duct taping said languages into something slightly more sane. We'll get the same for JS. It's the new Pascal/C in that regard.