[EForEndeavour]

Javascript isn't just a frontend language though, is it?

> I'm not applying ML strategies to hundreds of thousands of data points

Maybe you aren't, but the folks over at tensorflow.js [1] certainly are, as well as Andrej Karpathy's ConvnetJS [2].

[1] https://www.tensorflow.org/js [2] https://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/convnetjs/demo/class...

[ng12]

Which is why I specified I was talking about the front-end.

[EForEndeavour]

There's plenty of demand for and work on frontend JS performance as well, e.g, https://greensock.com/

[ng12]

You're being pedantic -- I'm not saying that there performance-critical JS code doesn't exist, I'm saying that the push for readability over performance isn't going anywhere.