Lambdas in Python are so pitiful compared to javascript's closures that I think this would be a very bad choice, although you're welcome to disagree with me com

Lambdas in Python are so pitiful compared to javascript's closures that I think this would be a very bad choice, although you're welcome to disagree with me completely, since this is completely subjective. This might not be a bad idea for a future project like a hypothetic HTML6, but I still think it's a bad idea _in general_. The web has consistently been about standards, and enabling developers to write code once that runs on many platforms (although the realities of browsers' quirks means that you will need to endlessly tweak your code to work on a given platform). Were we to allow developers to write in any suitable language, there would be much much more work on the part of end users and browser developers to make sure that their system is up to date with the latest language X plugin so that websites that use language X as a scripting language function well/correctly. In short, this is a bad idea because it would fracture the web, when really we should be embracing standards that make the web simpler and easier for everyone to use.