Fully agreed. A low(ish)-level, non-JS API to the sea of DOM "primitives" inside blink/gecko/webkit/etc. suitable for targeting in an FFI-like manner by any language is the standard I'd like to see. We don't need 3 languages: it's all there in C++ classes and C structs.
I've been writing a lot of ClojureScript/React lately and with that I only really touch HTML to include CSS and scripts. It's pretty glorious, highly productive, and makes a very strong case for opening up lower levels to allow new paradigms to evolve - with this set-up, HTML and JS only get in the way.
The browser is now (almost) an OS in a VM and, imho, the sooner we start treating it like that the better.
I've been writing a lot of ClojureScript/React lately and with that I only really touch HTML to include CSS and scripts. It's pretty glorious, highly productive, and makes a very strong case for opening up lower levels to allow new paradigms to evolve - with this set-up, HTML and JS only get in the way.
The browser is now (almost) an OS in a VM and, imho, the sooner we start treating it like that the better.