Also consider haXe: http://haxe.org/ http://haxe.org/ It's an actionscript-inspired unified language which can be compiled into JS, Flash, PHP, C++ or interpret

Also consider haXe: http://haxe.org/ http://haxe.org/ It's an actionscript-inspired unified language which can be compiled into JS, Flash, PHP, C++ or interpreted on (yet another, sic) VM as an apache mod.