If we take this logic, we should get rid of JavaScript support entirely and only support WASM, which would be a direction, but it would ignore how developers ar

If we take this logic, we should get rid of JavaScript support entirely and only support WASM, which would be a direction, but it would ignore how developers are using the platform. It is now becoming rare when I see any serious project that still uses JavaScript, everyone I know is using TypeScript and I don't recall any job posts not requiring TypeScript. What are the standards bodies doing? They are still implementing hacks upon JavaScript instead of seeing the writing on the wall. Maintaining JS engines is difficult because of the old stuff that few developers actually use, it would make a lot more sense to start deprecating those features and adding the new ones developers actually want. I started using alternatives to NodeJS because I don't feel like I should subject myself to a compilation step if I don't have to.