> The browser's programming model is fundamentally about a graph of objects with identity, managed by a GC, mutated through a rich API surface.

Even more to the point, for the past couple of decades the browser's programming model has just been "write JavaScript". Of course it's going to fit JavaScript better than something else right now! That's an emergent property though, not something inherent about the web in the abstract.

There's an argument to be made that we shouldn't bother trying to change this, but it's not the same as arguing that the web can't possibly evolve to support other things as well. In other words, the current model for web programming we have is a local optimum, but statements like the the one at the root of this comment chain talk like it's a global one, and I don't think that's self-evident. Without addressing whether they're opposed to the concept or the amount of work it would take, it's hard to have a meaningful discussion.