"death of Javascript except as a compilation target" It has kind of already happened. Except Javascript is the compilation source as well (ES6->ES5) - but that

"death of Javascript except as a compilation target" It has kind of already happened. Except Javascript is the compilation source as well (ES6->ES5) - but that'll change hopefully. Once we get WebAssembly + Electron then we have a true build once run anywhere dream, like Java could never have imagined.