Basically every language has been competing with JavaScript for at least a decade. Maybe even two decades. Tons of languages target the JS runtime, there have b

Basically every language has been competing with JavaScript for at least a decade. Maybe even two decades. Tons of languages target the JS runtime, there have been countless languages that are syntactic sugar over JS, and dozens if not hundreds of attempts to build a browser dev experience that was better than JS. The only continuity is that JS is still around and well. And this is all just recent stuff. What about the attempts for other languages supported in the browser from 20+ years ago? People have been competing against JS for as long as JS has existed. The reality is JS is really useful