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Ask HN: What language would you like instead of JavaScript in the browser?

4 pointsby arunkumarlover 9 years ago
Assuming you could write in any language other than JS for the browser, what language would you write in?

3 comments

anonyfoxover 9 years ago
Elixir.<p>The frontend world is gravitating more and more towards functional stuff, so let&#x27;s go straight for the real thing. The actor based model of the VM should also <i>greatly</i> help to achieve concurrent&#x2F;parallel&#x2F;distributed stuff. Plus one could design awesome DSLs through Elixir macros.<p>But I guess everyone has at least one opinion why his&#x2F;her fav language should be in.<p>The most interesting part would be (given that a BEAM VM runs natively in the browser&#x2F;tab) what people would build with the power of <i>linkable</i> VMs. I&#x27;d be very curious!
mindcrimeover 9 years ago
COBOL<p>Just kidding... Given my druthers I&#x27;d take something like Groovy, Java, or maybe Scala.
mpnordlandover 9 years ago
Give me python in everything.