I would love to see this. But there's two problems with it: 1. Bytecode formats are never completely language independent - there's always a feature or change

I would love to see this. But there's two problems with it: 1. Bytecode formats are never completely language independent - there's always a feature or change that would make language X better 2. Browser vendors will never be able to agree on a bytecode format So, to solve those problems, I've been thinking the following approach might work: 1. Write a JavaScript interpeter for a fairly language-independent bytecode 2. Write some small languages, targeting that bytecode (something for everyone: Haskell-like, C-like, Lisp-like, Forth-like, etc) 3. Hope people start writing more languages to target the bytecode 4. Hope that it's hard for browser vendors to ignore implementing the bytecode natively - for performance reasons This way we avoid committees and just get it done. Let me know if you think this is a good or bad idea. I'm very willing to work on it.