OK, I'm having a lot of fun reading this. One little nitpick: > What systems programming functionality does Javascript lack? Here's a starting point: a secur

OK, I'm having a lot of fun reading this. One little nitpick: > What systems programming functionality does Javascript lack? Here's a starting point: a secure random number generator. Chrome has actually implemented one (http://blog.chromium.org/2011/06/new-chromium-security-features-june.html http://blog.chromium.org/2011/06/new-chromium-security-featu...). It's a part of WebKit (http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2011-February/030394.html http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2011-Feb...). Firefox has an unimplemented (as of Firefox 6) secure RNG API (https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript_crypto https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript_crypto, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=440046 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=440046).