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Let's hope WebAssembly will help to relegate JavaScript to obsolescence and allow a productive and safe language to gain momentum. I also hope WebAssembly will solve the debugging (no DWARF) story universally.

Web browsers are one of the most popular attack vectors and hence would benefit from an APL-like rigid language profile for web applications. JavaScript is too imprecise and bug prone for anyone to use.



Javascript is evolving and it also has probably the largest number of developers in the world (both those working on JS VMs/tools and JS users).

Given that there are Cobol users still out there, it's entirely likely that JS will outlive both of us and maybe even our species :)

Plus JS is one profile away from becoming a very sound language. And it's not like it hasn't moved that way already (strict mode).




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