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Discussion on: Javascript needs competition on the front end. Thoughts?

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Ben Halpern

I doubt C/C++ would catch on for the web necessarily, but maybe Rust. It seems like that's the high-perf language that has the most momentum due to novelty/excitement and stewardship from Mozilla.

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Sai gowtham

But JavaScript engines are improved so much always bet on JavaScript .

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Ben Halpern

I agree. JS isn't going anywhere but there is always going to be people who want something very different. I think Elm qualifies as quite different from JS.