Broadly agree, with the one caveat that private-equity-owned businesses seem to be even worse than public companies in this regard.

I agree, although there’s a lot of selection bias at work here: companies usually don’t get bought by private equity unless they’re already in distress, so whatever they were doing before the acquisition clearly wasn’t working.

C.f. Private equity entrance to the veterinary market. Were they all really distressed? The issue is valuation of company vs underlying assets, isn’t it? Distress is one way, but a solid company not squeezing all of the value out of its customers / capital is another.

I mean, these things aren’t static. Python may be the second most popular language (behind JS/TS) today, but what if elixir takes over 10 years from now? There is no need for browsers to implement every language-of-the-day.

Additionally, browser JS adheres to a quite strict backwards compatibility requirements. Python can and does deprecate and remove APIs, and I would imagine the community would not like to lose that flexibility.

WASM is probably the best bet here, in that it provides a well-specified low-level target, such that the door is open for other languages for anyone who is allergic to learning/using javascript.

Or perhaps you've got it backwards: there's no reason for browsers to prevent anyone from implementing any language they want.

JS and backwards compatibility gave me a chuckle...try hanging out on the web in IE11.

What is the difference between the DOM API, a JavaScript engine and the JS language specification?