I welcome being able to use any language. But,<p>&gt; No transpilation<p>You&#x27;ll have to compile instead.<p>&gt; people will be able to get rid of javascript wholesale<p>Modern JS (ES6+) isn&#x27;t worse than Java or C# in terms of expressiveness. In fact, it might even be better in some cases.<p>No other language is going to come with built-in tools for editing within browser&#x2F;client dev tools. Modern JS is going to be one of the easy languages to get started on.<p>And of course, you totally underestimate the billions of lines of JS already written for the Web.