It’s a two minute video

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    He also wrote the best book for JavaScript, JavaScript: The Good Parts.

    JS is pretty bad, but it’s so ubiquitous now that I don’t know if anyone can create a replacement with enough traction for one of the big browsers to start supporting it.

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      Web assembly is catching on, which can theoretically be compiled from any language.

      It’s not exactly the same, since you’re not dealing with the classic Layout+Style+Behavior model of HTML, CSS, and JS, but it’s becoming pretty powerful and a few UI frameworks already support it.

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      I think it’d be possible to create a replacement, assuming you’re a large company that ships your own browser (not naming names…). If you have enough market share/“killer apps” then it might be adopted (maybe?).

      Now, ditching JS is a whole nother ballgame, and yeah, I don’t see that happening any time soon!

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        One of them tried it, they had a Monopoly and tried to push their Basic (not naming names) but it didn’t take off. I can’t believe I am saying this but I kinda wish it had worked.

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      It will happen eventually. Look at FORTRAN, or COBOL, or BASIC, or Pascal, or even Objective-C.