My complaint is that a lot of people like CSS/HTML/JS. Because they have learned it and gotten comfortable with it. They don't know/understand anything else and

My complaint is that a lot of people like CSS/HTML/JS. Because they have learned it and gotten comfortable with it. They don't know/understand anything else and their identity and sense of self-worth is challenged if you speak ill of these technologies. That's a big problem. Pragmatically: I suppose that we embrace CSS/HTML/JS as object code. And I mean this in a much more dramatic way than CoffeeScript or SASS. This is finally starting to happen, thanks to browser support for things like source-maps. This is one reason I contribute to ClojureScript! Idealistically: We should be pushing for lower level platforms for code distribution and execution, as well as host platform integration. Portable Native Client and similar efforts shouldn't be so controversial.