"The very fact that we're seeing so much html/js game dev" We are? Games that make money? Most games may not need the raw speed of native, but they do need the

"The very fact that we're seeing so much html/js game dev" We are? Games that make money? Most games may not need the raw speed of native, but they do need the raw latency. If a game is being programmed in a garbage collected language you're gonna have a bad time.