From Douglas Crockford’s talk The State and Future of JavaScript:
There’s pressure to make it [JavaScript] a better compilation target. Now, this is a big surprise. Everybody thought that the Java VM was going to be the VM of the internet, but it turns out that JavaScript language is the VM [virtual machine] of the internet. People are writing in Java, and Python, and lots of other languages, and then translating it into JavaScript because JavaScript, for all of its security problems, actually has a much better security model than everybody else.
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