[_Codemonkeyism]

I'm totally with you. JS is such a bad language, might get better in the future with ES<X> but I guess not. It has many quick hacks (in the bad sense), admitted by it's author.

Interesting pattern I see lately is industry pundits on the CIO side advocate Javascript for inhouse tooling. I guess they have not much experience with programming languages.

With JS making inroads into CIO territory, we'll see a much higher usage in the future. And a much larger fallout with tons of unmaintainable legacy code.

It's like the times when everything needed Java, like Oracle added Java into their DBs for stored procedures. I guess Oracle will add JS too (or have they already?).