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Try writing anything larger than 10.000 LoC and JavaScript becomes a pain in the ass. No matter how many frameworks will appear unless there are fundamental changes in the language I don't see it making it to the enterprise.

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TypeScript really helps with this.

Enough with Typescript. using a transpiler doesnt make the language better.

Why is it worse than using, say Objective-C to improve C? Genuinely curious here.

What kind of changes?

Obfuscation to name one. I don't see any enterprise moving to a platform where you can't protect your code from prying eyes. Although it's not inherently a language problem per se, (it could be solved by browser technology) it would help a lot if the language could be compiled.

I haven't used it, but I've heard a lot of good things about the Closure compiler: https://developers.google.com/closure/compiler/

Seems like it scratches that particular itch.

FWIW, also available as a grunt service:

https://github.com/gmarty/grunt-closure-compiler

We are talking about backend javascript, arguably javascript is already the top front-end enterprise language.

So browser technology has nothing to do with it. Furthermore, Java can be decompiled in a format that is eaiser to read than explicitly obfusciated javascript.

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