JavaScript in and of itself is just another little DSL, if you want to do sane things it rows your boat. What creates all the trouble is what people are trying

JavaScript in and of itself is just another little DSL, if you want to do sane things it rows your boat. What creates all the trouble is what people are trying to extract out of it and the usually inexpert community around the language (little amount of actual CS people). It would've been way easier if around 2007-2010 we added a new language to the browser, and had some standards for the average JS programmer. I haven't tried Dart at all, but if Google actually shipped it in Chrome, then others would have to follow. We'd all call them evil for that, but at the end we'd have all others follow and end up with (probably) a proper language to code in for the browser (well my actual thoughts about running that sort of code is rather unpopular and negative, but I'll keep it to myself here to not annoy anybody).