Related note: with all the talk about web assembly, why -not- use the JVM bytecodes, instead of reinventing the wheel for a 5th time?
Watching languages compile to JavaScript is sort of hilarious.
> It can execute programs written in most JVM languages, including Java, Clojure, Scala, JRuby, and Jython, since it can run those languages out of their JAR files.
I'm wondering about Kotlin and Apache Groovy -- perhaps they can't be run straight out of their JAR files!