The best thing we can do today to JavaScript is to retire it. Twenty years ago,
I was one of the few advocates for JavaScript. Its cobbling together of nested f
unctions and dynamic objects was brilliant. I spent a decade trying to correct i
ts flaws. I had a minor success with ES5. But since then, there has been strong
interest in further bloating the language instead of making it better. So JavaSc
ript, like the other dinosaur languages, has become a barrier to progress. We sh
ould be focused on the next language, which should look more like E than like Ja
vaScript.”