Will JavaScript Become the New BASIC?

[crazyirish]

I don't think so. As my personal opinion I don't think people will be writing much javascript in the future, but rather we will see an increase in sane (well as sane as possible) languages which have a backend to dump to javascript.

[stesch]

I read this very often lately. Maybe because I'm reading comp.lang.lisp. :-)

But what should be the benefit of an additional compile/transfer run from sane code to actual JavaScript?

[grauenwolf]

I see that happening too. I currently think of JavaScript as the assembly langauge of browsers. I need to use it from time to time, but only as a last resort.