Are there any alternatives to Javascript

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I mean a language separate from Java script that can work with and manipulate Html and also do calculation etc just like javascript

Edit: in the browser

In the browser? (Many languages have HTML/DOM manipulation libraries available, but if you mean manipulating it in the browser as is commonly seen with JS, then your options are severely limited). — James Allardice, Apr 12 '13 at 08:37

NimChimpsky · Answer 1 · 2013-04-12T08:45:58.250

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typescript the statically typed alternative developed by microsoft.

Dart googles imrpoved javascript.

Coffeescript some syntatic sugar on top of javascript - but probably the most popular of the three.

Whats wrong with javascript nayway ? Its great, albeit a bit weird to begin with.

edited Apr 12 '13 at 08:45

answered Apr 12 '13 at 08:38

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I think this is way not enough for an answer. Please expand it. – Ivaylo Strandjev Apr 12 '13 at 08:39
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@IvayloStrandjev i imagien the question will get closed anyway ... – NimChimpsky Apr 12 '13 at 08:39
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Even a closed question can be of help in the future and same holds true for its answers. Please try to keep up the high standard we aim for in stackoverflow. – Ivaylo Strandjev Apr 12 '13 at 08:40
Isn't coffeescript compiled from javascript? – 124697 Apr 12 '13 at 08:40
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@user521180 compiled to – NimChimpsky Apr 12 '13 at 08:42
Typescript is's really an alternative, as it generates Javascript. – Guffa Apr 12 '13 at 08:43
@Guffa they all do ... but they definitely provide an alternative to writing javscript. – NimChimpsky Apr 12 '13 at 08:43
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Any language that's going to run in commonly used web browsers *and* manipulate the DOM, is going to compile to JS, cause no other scripting language is supported worth a damn in browsers. If they don't need to mess with the document, Silverlight or Flash might be an alternative...but in this case, JS is what it has to end up as. – cHao Apr 12 '13 at 08:49

Guffa · Answer 2 · 2013-04-12T09:08:57.257

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Javascript is the only script language that is supported in all browsers.

There are a lot of libraries and plugins that you can use to generate Javascript without writing all the code yourself, but in the end they all use Javascript.

Micrsoft also supported VBScript in Internet Explorer up to version 9. In IE 10 you have to force the page into compatibility mode to use VBScript.

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answered Apr 12 '13 at 08:50

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