[euroclydon]

It would be nice if there were a way to re-think what we have built on top of Node, and NPM or Yarn, to have a great front end framework built using a language with a standard library, rather than a jaw-dropping hierarchy of dependencies.

[thosakwe]

There are already at least two languages like this I can think of with good standard libraries, and good frontend support (Elm and Dart). But adoption of both is low. I don't think it's a coincidence, nor do I think it's just a product of circumstances. People are still going to use JavaScript, no matter how many better things are out there.