It would be much easier without the moving target of new Javascript features that browsers have to keep up with. With a real, mature, nonbroken language there would be no need to add new features every year. Someone said that Python is badly suited for the web because not event-oriented, whatever that means. Well, JS didn't have async/await until recently, and there's still lots of code that uses promises, yet even promises aren't supported by ancient browsers. It would have been so much easier to use a language that had ironed its sophomore mistakes somewhere on the desktop, before the web limelight. Instead, they created an all-new "web language" to ensure decades of volatility and reinventing the wheel for all the world wide web...