> A language so good you need to write another language that compiles into that language to make it tolerable. Some people need it to make it tolerable. That h

> A language so good you need to write another language that compiles into that language to make it tolerable. Some people need it to make it tolerable. That happens on every platform. You have Java and Kotlin/Scala/Groovy ... Microsoft even created F# to its C# ... > We had an opportunity to kill javascript and instead we embraced it. We deserve what we get. You mean VBScript? Or what other opportunity you mean? I often get the sense that JS haters last saw the language in 1999. Modern JavaScript is a very nice scripting language. Succint, elegant, functional. Its major omission is the lack of static typing, but JSDoc and WebStorm make it tolerable.