Couldn't agree more. perfunctory is ignorant to believe that building a new programming language would solve the problem. Google is trying just that with Dart,

Couldn't agree more. perfunctory is ignorant to believe that building a new programming language would solve the problem. Google is trying just that with Dart, and it will take years before it will be adopted by the other browser vendors, if ever. These micro-languages (that compiles to JS) try to solve the same fundamental problems that exist in JavaScript, which mostly are syntactic or semantic in nature. But there are some solutions and implementations that will likely help further the development of ECMAScript, so the man-hours spent on creating them aren't all lost.