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At some point someone needs to have the balls to create and push a better language than JS in the browser. It's a huge and scary undertaking, but until it happe

At some point someone needs to have the balls to create and push a better language than JS in the browser. It's a huge and scary undertaking, but until it happens we are firmly in transpile/good language -> WASM land for the foreseeable future. TS is lauded, but I really think it's just the best of a bad bunch.

jenscow 3y ago
There's Dart. But at the time, many complained of the lack of jQuery support and needing to transpile to support other browsers, so it didn't get the interest it deserved.
- troupo 3y ago
  I don't think Dart is meaningfully better than JS (for some vague definition of better)
  - jenscow 3y ago
    It provides opt-in type safety. Unlike TS, it's not a language extension.
xeonmc 3y ago
LuaJIT?
chrisco255 3y ago
There's absolutely no reason to push another language in the browser. Just make wasm your compile target. It's assembly for a reason.
- PUSH_AX 3y ago
  Sure, if you're writing a lib... If you're writing software and you're consuming libs and frameworks, a fragmented ecosystem sounds less than ideal.