[mmariani]

No. Javascript is just a general purpose language. It could very well serve as a DSL for layout or presentation. But the browsers already have that, it's called HTML and CSS.

What I'm referring to is Javascript syntax. It's way too ambiguous which often leeds to programming errors. For instance: the global variables gaffe, the scope mess, the sloppy prototypal implementation, etc.

Hiding that behind a compiler doesn't make the problems go away. It makes them worse.

[keen]

For what it's worth, my intention is to overcome some of those issues that you mention. First, I assume you're talking about accidental pollution of the global scope (by omitting 'var'), which can be avoided: see CoffeeScript. Also, I have some ideas to improve the 'scope mess', as well as prototypes.