Might be interesting to think about why we don't have any other major languages in the browser? Javascript suffers from a lot of historical baggage and a lot o

Might be interesting to think about why we don't have any other major languages in the browser? Javascript suffers from a lot of historical baggage and a lot of bad javascript on the web. One of the most helpful developments in the past few years has been the emergence of a "better" subset of js, led by Douglas Crockford's mafia, jslint, jshint, jsonlint etc. It's hard to argue that any language+platform has a more vibrant ecosystem right now than js+node.js