[StClaire]

Yes. We moved away from Fortran, Cobol, and Basic when something better came along. Eventually we'll move away from Javascript too. Maybe it will be a language that spits Javascript, maybe it will be a language that runs on Chrome and Firefox. Right now I don't know what that language will be, but I'm sure it'll arrive one day

[santaclaus]

> moved away from Fortran

Once in a blue moon I still have to hit up some damn Fortran because the latest badass optimization routine is cooked up by a crusty German. JavaScript is gonna be around for a minute, I'd wager.

[cube00]

We have, it's called TypeScript.

[ubersoldat2k7]

Or Dart... What ever happened with that?

[scriptproof]

Or ECMAScript 7 or 8 or 9...

[mabynogy]

Or maybe JS is like shell ("Web as the OS").