On: A long list of (advanced) JavaScript questions, an...

[Hammershaft]

It's a tragedy when you think about how many millions (billions?) of man hours have been wasted on javascript because it's the only native scripting language of the browser. Even more tragic is that the original plan was to make scheme the language of the browser.

[nanomonkey → Hammershaft]

Well, now you can compile scheme to run on the browser with Hoot (Guile scheme to WASM): https://spritely.institute/hoot/

[shawn_w → nanomonkey]

There's an experimental Racket to JavaScript compiler too: https://docs.racket-lang.org/racketscript/index.html

Ooo, there's more: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/List-of-langu...