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JavaScript may very well have the doubtful honor of being the language that people have spent most resources to avoid writing in.

It's probably 2nd place. I imagine avoiding writing in C gets the top honor.

Nope, every single programming language and computing interface is an attempt to avoid writing machine code. :)

Maybe, but the step away from assembly has been more about portability than avoiding the language.

Which begs the question: why haven't browsers adopted another scripting language?

You can find answer to this easily enough. Some at Google were pushing Dart, read reaction to that from Mozilla, Apple and Microsoft.