Come on. VBScript and Flash? Really? What I meant and you pretend to not understand is that there is no way to use another language just like you use Javascript when scripting a web application. I can't open a console and go

@document.query_selector_all(".fancy").each do |element| ... end

I find that annoying. That a few companies have tried to introduce proprietary extensions is another topic, it doesn't mean that there is a real choice for developers.

The point is that some people decided some time ago that scripting the web and accessing everything browser-ish (DOM, Canvas, SVG, WebSockets, Web Workers, etc.) meant Javascript and that was it. The lack of choice and variety at hand is absolutely ridiculous. In no other software space would people tolerate to be forced into a technology like that.