[diggan]

I'm also a JS developer myself, so I guess the dig includes myself too (99% of my time is spent with ClojureScript). JavaScript was just a example out of many. Same with Java or basically most languages, where you can't change the core language from the outside without forking it. I don't think anyone will deny that some languages add features just to satisfy a smaller part of it's users, because there is no other way for those people to get their features.

Because of it's dynamic nature, there is no plateau in Clojure (lisps in general), the responsibility just shifted to outside the core language that Rich Hickey et al maintains.