A lot of JS usage on web browser is as a tool to manipulate DOM. A bigger part of the problem, I think, is the DOM API. Another big part of the problem is of c

A lot of JS usage on web browser is as a tool to manipulate DOM. A bigger part of the problem, I think, is the DOM API. Another big part of the problem is of course inconsistencies between browsers. Because of those 2 problems, our client-side code becomes complex. Changing JS with "$LANGUAGE_X" wouldn't help much. If the DOM API is much better and web browsers behave the same way, things would be much different.