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I went full JS three years ago from a Java/Spring background and never looked back.

As a solo developer I noticed a huge increase in productivity and the time it took to ship code to production. My use case is a SaaS application with ~50 users.

Coding skills did improve but I think that's just a natural progression for everyone and wouldn't attribute it to a specific language.

Pros: very open community, lots of learning resources, no enforced standards.

Cons: it's easy to get things wrong, keeping up with new libraries is intimidating.

Tip: start small, create a twitter bot or something, use ES7