Perhaps if Javascript were used more like a traditional programming language? I.e. to build a terminal emulator, you find the JS library that binds to OpenGL or

Perhaps if Javascript were used more like a traditional programming language? I.e. to build a terminal emulator, you find the JS library that binds to OpenGL or SDL or X or Cocoa or whatever, and you write JS code against that library, then compile it into a bytecode/binary.