Ah, in an alternate world where Brendan Eich wasn't pressured by his superiors to make JS more Java-like, we could have had something like this as very normal.

I wonder how much faster that would have pushed the world into FP ideas. While sometimes I prefer the bracket/C syntax, I wonder how things would have evolved if JS was a lisp originally. Instead of things moving to TypeScript, would they be moving to something like typed Lisp or OCaml, or PureScript ?

WebAssembly is about an improved Developer Experience. It lets us write in the languages we like :)

I can't say how many times I've reinvented pieces of Common Lisp to do my job. Now I want to start a side project with this.