Once upon a time Google Web Toolkit stood relatively alone as a production quality solution for compiling a different language (Java) to JavaScript. However today we can also choose TypeScript or Dart, both languages designed specifically for "programming in the large" that are backed by big companies. We also have more grass roots offerings like CoffeeScript which has seen quite a bit of traction among web developers. But these solutions are not really as different as they seem. In this talk we'll see how ClojureScript offers a genuinely futuristic approach (by way of the past!) to client side software development.