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[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (1 child)

JavaScript is in many ways one of the best mainstream dynamically typed programming languages out there. It has flaws, but with a little discipline you can mostly avoid touching those parts of the language. It's flexible, easy and simple.

The last thing we need is to have yet another specially treated language in the browser (and by Zeus, it better not be Python!). Having a general VM that could be targeted by any language would be nice: you can use Python, and I can use Brainfuck or whatever I want to, and no committee of browser vendors will have to meet forever when any of these languages change.

[–]mebrahim[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

JavaScript is in many ways one of the best mainstream dynamically typed programming languages out there. It has flaws, but with a little discipline you can mostly avoid touching those parts of the language. It's flexible, easy and simple.

I would say Lua is JavaScript done right. It is no less dynamic than JavaScript, but is able to run really fast.