[criticalfault]

> I would rather the web was based on a statically typed language that had better error handling practices like Go.

So, dart?

Back in the day Google had plans to make a dart VM in Chrome, but powers that be didn't like this idea.

So here we are. it's 2026 and the web is still limited to one language. Dare I say the only area where we don't have alternatives.

[pjmlp]

There are other areas.

Embedded development, high critical systems, mobile platforms (the choice isn't really there), game consoles.

It is mostly C or C++, Swift/Objective-C, Java/Kotlin.

There are other alternatives you might want to point out, notice however they need integration layers, leaky ones, some yak shaving not much different than targeting WebAssembly, and still having to talk to JavaScript.

[criticalfault]

if you say apple allows only one language, it may be true. you don't have alternatives. but you can change platforms.

there is no alternative to the web and within the web there are no alternative languages.

for embedded, you have options, no? and I don't mean glue: rust. quick Google says Ada and assembly.