Why HTML/JavaScript/CSS are not compiled languages and will they ever be?

Question

Why HTML/JavaScript/CSS are not becoming compiled languages (or maybe even merge into a single compiled language)? What if browsers were running \"Browser Virtual Machine\" and

Answer 1

See here for a previous discussion on the matter

Not all of the reasons given are necessarily valid, but one important one is that, unless you're Google, server-side CPU cycles are a lot more valuable than client-side cycles: so it's easier to have the client compile/optimize what is quite often dynamically generated HTML/JavaScript, rather than the server.

Ken