Browser JavaScript Alternatives
The cluster discusses frustrations with JavaScript's dominance in web browsers and advocates for alternatives like other languages, virtual machines, bytecodes, or native code execution to enhance flexibility and performance.
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you can make a browser - but it won't have a JIT for javascript, rendering it useless.
Is there a reason we can ONLY use JavaScript in the browser? The world would immediately become better if we added a different language compiler on in instead.
Too bad. The browser is becoming general purpose with asm.js, WebGL etc. You can't hold back progress.
Wish the same thing as an webdev, but modern browser is almost a small vm these days..
Philosophically opposed to the browser as a code execution platform.
Because JS runs on the browser, so anything else is less portable.
Why does it matter if it's in your browser or not? The browser is just a fancy runtime.
Good thing browsers aren't written in javascript.
Does this contain a JS interpreter, or is it a cross-platform wrapper around OS-provided browser libraries?
Web browsers are just glorified JavaScript interpreters. Making Python a first-class citizen in the browser would be sweet.