It actually is really important for people to point out how awful the current state of affairs is. If there isn't recognition of the problem, it will never be

It actually is really important for people to point out how awful the current state of affairs is. If there isn't recognition of the problem, it will never be fixed. We need a standard browser bytecode, so multiple competing languages can exist and have the same access to the browser. As it stands now, people are using javascript as that bytecode, and writing decent language -> javascript compilers. Javascript is not well suited for this task.