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This project is solving wrong problem. JavaScript is not very popular because it is the best programming language in the world, it's popular because it runs eve

• jballanc 14y ago
  That same logic has been used for decades to discourage programmers from learning any language other than C...
  • duaneb 14y ago
    Except in the world of C, the common denominator isn't the language but binaries. You can write in any language you want so long as you have a good compiler.
• nateberkopec 14y ago
  You're assuming the problem is "run everywhere all the time." Plenty of projects are underway to get code that runs on "some of the machines very well all the time". asm.js, Google Native Client, and now that Blink has become a thing, I'll bet Dart gets it own VM in the most popular web browser in the world.
• flywheel 14y ago
  MOAR Javascript, please. There is something to be said for ubiquity that programmers of other languages just don't get. Ruby might seem like a good idea to put into a browser but it will run slow as shit compared to the javascript engines that are in modern browsers. A lot of development has gone into optimizing javascript engines. Ruby, not so much. Javascript is also the easiest language to learn, requires no boilerplate, and will run inside any web browser since the mid 90s, and the code you write with it can run instantly in any web browser, no installation required, just a URL to click on. There are so many reasons to learn javascript and develop with it, it is really unique and should remain that way. I'd really rather not go back to the days when there were two front-end languages, or worse, coffeescript.