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by pc2g4d 3400 days ago
Opening the web to non-Javascript languages will make it a more general platform. Imagine if Linux only let you run programs written in Perl! That's largely the situation the web has been stuck in for 20 years. I think the concerns about "view source" are ill-founded, as minified Javascript is already essentially an uninterpretable (by humans) assembly language. This essentially retains the status quo regarding human access to the underlying code, while broadening the number of ways you can build web applications. I support it.