[brunoc]

Critical for the survival of many businesses? Dealing with important data and processes? In that sense. Not in a system-critical kind of sense (kernels, etc).

I mean I'm glad that when I call 911 the dispatching system probably isn't written in JavaScript, but it's likely that there's a web ui somewhere in there. Police cars too, run web applications on those touchscreens.

I'm definitely aware of JS shortcomings, having had to deal with them for many years. I just found that particular quote to be a little snarky, and outdated.