Not to mention, there is no need to "minify" HTML, CSS, or JavaShit for a browser to render a page unlike compiled code which is more or less a necessity for such things.
By your logic, there's actually no reason to use compiled code at all, for almost anything above the kernel. We can just use Python to do everything, including run browsers, play video games, etc. Sure, it'll be dog-slow, but you seem to care more about reading the code than performance or any other consideration.
Glad to see the diversity of HN readers apparently includes twelve year olds.
Anyway, you do realise plenty of languages have compilers with JS as a compilation target, right? How readable do you think that is?
The abuse of JavaScript does not deserve the respect of being called by a proper name.
>Anyway, you do realise plenty of languages have compilers with JS as a compilation target, right? How readable do you think that is?
If you're going to run "compiled" code through an interpreter anyway, is that really compiled code?
> The program must include source code [...] The source code must be the preferred form in which a programmer would modify the program. Deliberately obfuscated source code is not allowed. Intermediate forms such as the output of a preprocessor [...] are not allowed.