I agree with you fully. I even started to write a book on it [1]. Unfortunately there is nothing else. When I was a young man, I had IE as the primary target.

I agree with you fully. I even started to write a book on it [1]. Unfortunately there is nothing else. When I was a young man, I had IE as the primary target. I could chose between screwy looking Javascript that wasn't fully supported across the fledgling NS/IE browsers, or VBScript, which wasn't supported at all on NS, but did just fine on IE. Since IE was huge, I learned VBScript because it took my BASIC skills, which were basic, to the next level. VBScript quickly fell away even though I was able to do neat demos that were cutting edge such as adding fog lamps to a car to get a quote when buying a new car (or changing the color). It fell because MS didn't make VBScript available as a common standard so Mozilla didn't implement it. By the time Chrome came along, it was a dead language like Phoenician. All that said to bring home the point: there is nothing else. Shit is shit, but at least like shit you can generate energy with JS. You can make the page move. You can seamlessly update sections with new data. It is the only thing than brings a spirit to a page. This is what either the users or the developers want (within reason, which is different for both of those markets). Even with WebAssembly we will probably stay on JS for years to come. Each browser has to implement support for a new language as well as stay standardize compliant with JS. I doubt will see multiple languages equally supported. It's a huge turd. It's a huge turd that gets things done. It's essentially both the ball and the beetle. Simply screaming into the void won't help anything [2]. 1 - https://github.com/virmundi/JSIsGarbage https://github.com/virmundi/JSIsGarbage 2 - http://screamintothevoid.com http://screamintothevoid.com