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by aphelion 4698 days ago
It's my fervent hope that developments like source maps and asm.js will eliminate what it basically Javascript's sole competitive advantage; that it's the only language that runs in a browser.

If it's possible to write performant, robust code with good tooling in CoffeeScript/Dart/TypeScript/Python/Clojure/etc., then the peculiarities of Javascript become a lot less important.