New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: JS++ ? Why not make a new, strongly typed JavaScript ?

Ask HN: JS++ ? Why not make a new, strongly typed JavaScript ?
7 by alcover | 20 comments on Hacker News.
Javascript has a nice syntax but needs to be faster and more reliable. With strong typing JS++ would eliminate many runtime bugs. Without all the crazy implicit conversions, boxing, 'eval', etc... fantastic speeds could be achieved. Lots of electricity and developper hair could be saved. JS++ would break backward compatibility but this could be softened by retaining the old syntax as largely as possible. With implicit and explicit typing. It should be easy/automated to convert js to js++. Inb4 ActionScript 3 : yes, something like that.