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I would love to see a nicer language replace JavaScript as much as the next guy, but it seems rather unlikely especially given the changes that ECMA has approved in the past.

I am really hoping that some day, we will be able to do front-end devwork that isn't just an abstraction of JS/HTML/CSS.

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Out of curiosity, what pieces do you believe are missing from your dream of front-end development work? You can already get a WebGL context from languages like C or C++ (compiled to asm.js), which should provide all the necessary building blocks to largely duplicate the front-end development toolkits that you find in native environments.

I mean you're still hinging on some incarnation of Javascript to act as the virtual machine, and you need HTML to setup the basic environment, but those seems like minor implementation details. Nothing that should impact your creativity in any major way. But perhaps I'm just not thinking big enough?