[munificent]

I'm not sure if you're a fan of Dart or not, but it has nine of those now (classes, types, modules, generics, actors, properties, interfaces, abstract classes, and tooling) and more on the way.

Might be worth giving it a try.

[winteriscomming]

Yes I like the direction dart is going in (except would prefer the type system had more actual meaning than just annotations for tooling, but still).

My pipe dream: - Google implements a VM for dart or equivalent.

- Dart, Java, C#, ActionScript, Python, Ruby, whatever, can compile to this VM.

- VM/bytecode is initially just in chrome, which is fine as far as I am concerned (no problem saying our app works in chrome only). You can transpile to JS if you want to target other browsers.

- Because of native VM implementation in chrome, the best web applications are in chrome. Chrome increases in popularity.

- Other vendors are forced to implement this VM.

- We get to something like a client VM (lets call it CVM) standard for all browsers.

- Developer productivity improves and browser based apps start not sucking so bad in comparison to their native brothers.