Too Long; Didn't Read
There is a latent desire out there to use something else than JS in the browser. Whether it is warranted or not is another topic in itself. But you don’t have to search long to find <a href="https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/List-of-languages-that-compile-to-JS" target="_blank">all kinds of projects</a> aiming to bring another language in the browser.