[sgk284]

You really need to look at Coffeescript (http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/) and Emscripten (https://github.com/kripken/emscripten).

I use coffeescript for all of my javascript development now and life has never been better. I've never used Emscripten in a serious capacity, but both of these projects are under very active development and show that javascript really is becoming the x86 of the web (as stated by Brendan Eich).

No need for us to wait on the four big companies. Things are moving forward without them.

[pufuwozu]

Emscripten was actually creatd by a Mozilla employee. He has mentioned that Mozilla is interested in it.