We are waiting for THE tool to help us make great animation, great binding, great web application like Silverlight to finally have application in HTML5 working on all platforms but having the tools many peoples are used to. Good luck !
There's Expression Blend for HTML developers from some time now: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2011/09/13/expression-blend-for-html.aspx Kendo UI should be supported in this environment, if you are looking for such a tool.
Sadly we are not on the same track here. I'm not talking about ASP.NET but Tools like Silverlight which means BLEND and making UI in XAML and doing code in C# which will result in a very beautiful UI and a very interesting UX. Tools like that doesn't exist yet for HTML 5 and this is what many people are looking for.
This is already supported by using the ASP.ENT MVC server wrappers for Kendo UI: http://www.telerik.com/aspnet-mvc As for tooling, you can make use of MS Visual Studio and our Visual Studio Extensions for MVC: http://docs.telerik.com/kendo-ui/getting-started/using-kendo-with/aspnet-mvc/vs-integration/introduction
I agreed. Java isn't a typed language and even with TypeScript, we are still with a not very friendly language. There's a huge gap between doing JavaScript app and C# app specially to design great UX with tools like VS 2013 - 20XX and Blend... The world needs this kind of tool and when it'll be created, it'll change the web forever. The company that will make this tool will be immensely rich :)
It would help JavaScript is a pita sometimes