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> I wish JavaScript "committed a teenager suicide" and we finally got a more sane language for the web.

While javascript has obvious flaws, nobody would ever agree on what a sane language would be.

I would also say that, personally, I think that how the DOM is implemented is itself the biggest pain point of web development, not really javascript.

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Lua is a sane ECMAScript in many ways.

Except that Lua and the Lua libraries are not strictly defined. Lua would be a fine choice if we were all to use for example only Microsoft Lua ;-)

Seriously, there have been a large number of compatible ECMAScript implementations, which still astounds me because that is no easy feat.

Why DOM? It seems pretty simple to me, a simple standardized tree of nodes representing content.

My biggest gripe would actually be CSS. I mean, wtf.

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