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There are lots of languages nicer than JS that compile down to JS.

That said, you don't need JS to make a webapp. You can do it strictly with server-side code and HTML.

[saltcookie]

i read about a project that converts llvm byte code to javascript, do any of u know about it

[AlexeyBrin]

Yes, Emscripten, basically takes C or C++ and compiles to JavaScript using LLVM.