The recent JavaScript renaissance that we're all enjoying owes debts to JavaScript's foresight as a "free", dynamic language. Bollocks. If javascript wasn't th

The recent JavaScript renaissance that we're all enjoying owes debts to JavaScript's foresight as a "free", dynamic language. Bollocks. If javascript wasn't the language of browsers, nobody would use it. Its got nothing to do with javascripts awesomeness. Indeed, that it took so long for the community (or in this case Mozilla and Google) to finally say "fuck it, this is the shitbag we're stuck with so at least lets make it faster", just tells me how much they wanted something else to be the standard. The only argument for NodeJs etc is that programmers can code the same language on client and server. Was there some "foresight" that made javascript the language of browsers? No. That said, why fuck with it? There are ways to encapsulate fields and methods in javascript. There are also ways to get around it. Just as there are ways to get around private and const in C++. If private and const really float your boat use GWT.