JS isn't perfect, but it's good enough. And there is ongoing effort to make it even better. Also, many other languages compile to JS (without WASM). Notably:

JS isn't perfect, but it's good enough. And there is ongoing effort to make it even better. Also, many other languages compile to JS (without WASM). Notably: - https://www.typescriptlang.org/ https://www.typescriptlang.org/ - https://coffeescript.org/ https://coffeescript.org/ - https://clojurescript.org/ https://clojurescript.org/ - https://www.transcrypt.org/ https://www.transcrypt.org/ I wrote https://multi-launch.leftium.com https://multi-launch.leftium.com, which is only 6% JS. The majority is Svelte (65%) + TypeScript (27%). (https://github.com/Leftium/multi-launch https://github.com/Leftium/multi-launch)