[centrinoblue]

"developers who know nothing about computing history"

I guess it depends on what time scale you are using to define computing history. JavaScript hasn't been 'new' for a long time.

I've been a web programmer for about 20yrs and have used ASP, ColdFusion, Java, C#, PHP, and JavaScript professionally and for me it is the language I enjoy using/writing the most. It continually surprises with new and more powerful innovations and implementations: from the early days of DHTML to AJAX, closures, Node, React, Tessel, etc.

I'm curious as to what more would have to be done with the language for it to graduate to 'real' language status.

Heck even NASA thinks it's good enough: https://vimeo.com/168064722

[JustSomeNobody]

I ... didn't say JavaScript wasn't a 'real' language...