The problem of the web as application platform isn't mainly Javascript (just use a proper linter and/or TS, or even WASM), but the adhoc-designed web API layer stack (e.g. the 3D rendering API should sit below the DOM, and there should be a couple of medium level APIs between the low-level rendering API and the DOM (such as text- and shape-rendering, a rectangle-layout API, a compositor API and an accessibility API which then the DOM is built on top - but which could also be used on their own), also WebAudio is just bad:
...and don't get me started about 'trivial' things like copy-paste, fullscreen, input handling and filesystem access. These are all not programming language problems, but API design problems.
...e.g. the web could be so much more when there wouldn't be this schism between the 'document-view orthodoxy' and the 'app-platform protestants' ;)
https://blog.mecheye.net/2017/09/i-dont-know-who-the-web-aud...
...and don't get me started about 'trivial' things like copy-paste, fullscreen, input handling and filesystem access. These are all not programming language problems, but API design problems.
...e.g. the web could be so much more when there wouldn't be this schism between the 'document-view orthodoxy' and the 'app-platform protestants' ;)