Javascript is a perfectly reasonable underlying language. Nothing that I know of stops people from compiling python or ruby into javascript. I would never writ

Javascript is a perfectly reasonable underlying language. Nothing that I know of stops people from compiling python or ruby into javascript. I would never write pure javascript, but using languages that compile to javascript has been pure joy. See http://common-lisp.net/project/parenscript/ http://common-lisp.net/project/parenscript/