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by khedoros1 2950 days ago
It solves the problem of "browsers need some form of embedded programming language". From there, it makes some degree of sense to also use it in the backend, to avoid multiple programming languages in the same codebase.

On the other hand, I've never written anything in Javascript. Maybe I'd have a lower opinion of it if my stack made heavy use of it.