> I'd rather have a language which is not specific to the browser, and browsers offering a compilation target, like LLVM / CLR / JVM. A simpler compilation targ

> I'd rather have a language which is not specific to the browser, and browsers offering a compilation target, like LLVM / CLR / JVM. A simpler compilation target would hopefully lack semantic subtleties. I would rather claim that all common VM targets, such as LLVM, CLR, JVM etc. are so full of semantic subtleties that the subtile parts of JavaScript are quite harmless against them.