[a8i]

I'll ask the obvious question: why?

Closures are the natural result of allowing the dynamic creation of lambdas, which is pretty central to JS as a language. A language "like Javascript but without closures" would no longer be "like Javascript".

[marktangotango]

Good point. More specifically, a dynamically typed, prototype based object oriented language with C style curly brace syntax.

[qbrass]

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