> A script language is not the best compilation target Performance-wise, sure. But the parent commenters were not complaining about performance; they were upse

> A script language is not the best compilation target Performance-wise, sure. But the parent commenters were not complaining about performance; they were upset about javascript's syntax, or lack of type guarantees, or typecasting, and so on. Well, all of this can be taken care of by the compiler, if the developer dislikes javascript itself so much.