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I'd prefer the JVM/CLR-Stacks fading away alltogether. An exhaustive Toolchain like Java has + a fairly superior IDE like Visual Studio, both targeted especially for the JS-Stack, and everyone wins.

If there is enough desire, every possible language can be ported over to the JS-stack. For me it's contra-productive to have too much languages to choose from.

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> I'd prefer the JVM/CLR-Stacks fading away alltogether. An exhaustive Toolchain like Java has + a fairly superior IDE like Visual Studio, both targeted especially for the JS-Stack, and everyone wins.

How does everyone win by having everything on a stack that is inherently slower and has terrible support for concurrency?

> If there is enough desire, every possible language can be ported over to the JS-stack. For me it's contra-productive to have too much languages to choose from.

Having everything compile to JavaScript doesn't mean there will be fewer languages. It just means that implementing the languages and debugging your code will be significantly more awkward.


Just out of curiosity, what's wrong with tools that compile to javascript? (i.e. CoffeScript, ClojureScript, pyjamas, and the like.)




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