Uhmm...yeah, I thought I pretty much said that. My point was from the application developer's perspective, what's the difference? Even now, C++ can be compiled to JS via EMScripten to asm.js.

I don't write "JavaScript" right now. I write Typescript. Most of the front-end ecosystems that I deal with (primarily Aurelia and React) aren't being written in ES5. It's usually ES6/7 and Typescript.