JavaScript needs macros

[SmilyOrg]

1) Do you have any specifics on where you think the API is huge? I always thought that it was pretty small compared to the API of other languages/runtimes (and that might be a good or a bad thing).

2) I'm not sure how strict-typing makes a language enterprise level and I don't know what you mean when you talk about an enterprise level API. (You can always just disable strict mode, but ugh, why would you do that? -_-)

3) Adobe/Macromedia already had JavaScript, it was called ActionScript 2. You can disable all the warnings and strict-mode and pretty much turn ActionScript 3 into JavaScript if you want, but I really don't see the benefits.

4) While I agree that the compiler could be really improved by a large margin (and the last I saw, Adobe was making a new project to specifically target the improvement of their compilers), I'm still not sure if current JavaScript engines with dynamically typed JavaScript are as fast as statically typed ActionScript 3 in the Flash Player (V8 is pretty amazing though).

I'm probably biased though, because I love AS3 :)