Yes, yes! Standardizing the VM is better than standardizing the language. But please don't standardize a Javascript VM that run JS fast but runs, e.g. OCaml rel

Yes, yes! Standardizing the VM is better than standardizing the language. But please don't standardize a Javascript VM that run JS fast but runs, e.g. OCaml relatively slowly (compared to a native code compiler). For things where performance is important, having fast languages run really fast is more valuable than having a slow language run somewhat fast. Using something like LLVM IR would be great, and that's what Google is doing with native client.