> You can make any language available in a script block and have it interpreted using a polyfill. If JS sucked as bad as some people think, this would have take

> You can make any language available in a script block and have it interpreted using a polyfill. If JS sucked as bad as some people think, this would have taken off - it hasn't. That's not trivial. People are cross compiling to javascript as part of a build process though, so you're wrong that it hasn't taken off. Coffescript, Typescript, ClojureScript, Elm, etc. https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/list-of-languages-that-compile-to-js https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/list-of-langu...