[bsimpson]

I'm astonished that this has been up for an hour and no one's mentioned Atwood's Law:

"Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript."

http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-principle-of-least-power/

[tambourine_man]

THE BIRTH & DEATH OF JAVASCRIPT

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...

[weitzj]

Great Talk to watch

[nickpsecurity]

People are even doing hardware design in the browser now. That may or may not directly involve JavaScript on HW part as I don't know how much those apps rely on servers. It's conceivable a basic, EDA tool could be built with Javascript, though.