Extinguishing JavaScript would actually be a very beneficial thing to do. It's quite refreshing to see Google trying to offer a viable alternative that's far m

Extinguishing JavaScript would actually be a very beneficial thing to do. It's quite refreshing to see Google trying to offer a viable alternative that's far more general in nature, and far more technologically-sound than its competitors. This contrasts heavily with what Mozilla is trying to do with asm.js. Their approach, unfortunately, is nothing more than an atrocious hack. Instead of doing things properly, they just maul JavaScript into a form that isn't as horrible to work with, from an optimization standpoint. However, this is clearly inferior to using a proper instruction set, bytecode, or intermediate representation. The worst part, though, is that asm.js further entrenches JavaScript. This is going in the opposite direction of where we ought to be going. We need browsers that offer a far more general runtime. JavaScript would merely be one among many other languages targeting such a runtime, rather than being an integral part of it like we see with asm.js.