[angersock]

An addendum.

I think that adding full support for things like Canvas and WebGL rendering would relieve the majority of the remaining issues people have, if done alongside that shared buffers approach.

Hell, written in a functional style Javascript looks none too different from, say, PLINQ, and if they decide to add library-level function parallelism I could absolutely get behind it.

Just save us from copy-and-pasted $.raiseSemaphore() and $.joinOnMonitor()--and history shows us, that is what we'll be expecting.

EDIT:

One more thing...JS does not lend itself to static analysis, and that may make writing safe parallel code even more difficult.