I wish a fraction of the effort going into "fixing" javascript went into fixing the real abomination: the DOM API (and CSS). Then everyone would benefit, even people using Dart, Coffeescript, and TypeScript.
I wish people would just realize that JavaScript isn't going anywhere and make the effort to understand it instead of trying to gloss over the quirks of it.
Understanding the key parts of writing JS (closures, scope, GC, etc.) isn't all that hard and it seems like more efforts are geared towards an abstraction layer and/or framework than just learning the language in the first place.
I think it's syntax and familiar looking and feeling environment cheerfully misleads people into thinking they are in a comfort zone, while they thrash around throwing sand in their own eyes, albeit with a familiar looking bucket and shovel.
