[gruseom]

Huh? What are these uses of JavaScript that are increasingly sophisticated and powerful?

Uh, any web app? Gmail? Google Maps? The one I'm working on? Surely we don't need to make a list.

If JavaScript continues to advance at the lightning pace it's been advancing these past ten years we'll be in exactly the same spot we are now!

That's incorrect. The language didn't need to change much. The two things that have changed are so major they couldn't be majorer: (1) it took people 10 years to actually figure out what they had in JS; (2) the implementations needed to catch up. While 1 may be more or less done, 2 is still in full swing. This will enable further innovation. It's not even clear we need major changes to the language itself. I'd be much more excited if the VMs were opened up to apps.