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they have released a language that is primarily designed to enhance their own tool-chain

You make this sound like its a bad thing, but that's open-source always and forever. Scratch your own itch.

This was advertised as a replacement for JavaScript. It turned out to be a replacement for GWT. False advertising. I'm wasting time reading specs and code samples and comments just to figure that out. I don't like being misled or wasting time.

I'm curious what you thought a JavaScript replacement would look like. Apparently you thought it /wouldn't/ look like GWT.

Python has a great, clean, compact and expressive syntax and a lot of syntactic sugar. Erlang does concurrency and error handling well. A mix of the two would be a great language to work with.

JavaScript - the ugly + OO + update to the standard library. That's it. Essentially what frameworks like MooTools try to make it into.

Ah. I think I was getting caught up in the idea that a "replacement" was something completely different and not an evolution change in JavaScript. But it's all just a matter of terminology at that point.

He's not saying it's immoral of Google or anything, just that it doesn't help the rest of the programming world.

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