I like JS for serving as an assembly language for the web - it's not theoretically ideal, but no assembly language really is. You have an ever-increasing set o

I like JS for serving as an assembly language for the web - it's not theoretically ideal, but no assembly language really is. You have an ever-increasing set of options for compiling non-JS code into JS. Just poke around a little - you could use haXe, CoffeeScript, ParenScript, Objective-J, Pyjamas, GWT, Fantom... Any platform - browser, server, etc. - that supports JS can reap the benefits of these alternative languages - just get your APIs ported and you're most of the way there.