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Looking forward to the day when we're not afraid to abandon Javascript and look towards a more competitive development ecosystem in browsers.

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doubt that will happen anytime soon, javascript will just become more like c/c++ in the next 5-10 years

Indeed, Node has given JS quite an incredible boost.

When developing low-level or systems software, there are many programming languages to choose from, but C and C++ continue to be often-chosen.

When developing software to run natively in all browsers, there's one choice: JavaScript.

So the comparison isn't fair. C/C++ had to prove themselves among many competitors. JavaScript "won" by default, not because it's somehow the best choice.

I'm glad to see other options like Dart and PNaCl coming along. It's about time.

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