It's operating a defacto monopoly on a layer of the modern development stack. This does not make it "f'ing awesome".
People rant about JS not because it's shit, per se. Everybody knows that. They rant because they long for better languages that are available across all web browsers.
I would like to see a standardised CLR-style VM that allows language modules to be loaded as requested by a particular web page. Otherwise we'll just be replacing JS with what will probably be another old fashioned imperative language (see: Rust). We don't want that. We want freedom to use whatever language we want.
People rant about JS not because it's shit, per se. Everybody knows that. They rant because they long for better languages that are available across all web browsers.
I would like to see a standardised CLR-style VM that allows language modules to be loaded as requested by a particular web page. Otherwise we'll just be replacing JS with what will probably be another old fashioned imperative language (see: Rust). We don't want that. We want freedom to use whatever language we want.