"My (and your) 10k, 100k, 200k line C# applications are not writable in JS."
Actually, they are, and quite well. But not by the developers that Microsoft targets. Those developers need a lot of hand-holding to get used to async programming, prototypal inheritance, closures for encapsulation, etc.
So actually, I'm agreeing with you -- there's no way that's where Microsoft is heading. They'd be more like to drop all their programming languages and tell everyone to switch to Lisp.
Actually, they are, and quite well. But not by the developers that Microsoft targets. Those developers need a lot of hand-holding to get used to async programming, prototypal inheritance, closures for encapsulation, etc.
So actually, I'm agreeing with you -- there's no way that's where Microsoft is heading. They'd be more like to drop all their programming languages and tell everyone to switch to Lisp.