It's frustrating when people put so much effort into trying to shove the dynamic block through the static hole.

I develop mostly in C# and love it, but have absolutely no interest in a "compiled" or more-static JavaScript. JavaScript is a great language as it is (ignoring the DOM mess).

I spent most of the podcast wondering if Yegge hasn't seen Script# or JSLint, and wondering why Joel's architecture astronomy alarm wasn't going off.