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Actually, it should be: JavaScript is weakening the JavaScript ecosystem.

In the olden days, html, css, js were it. But each were "subclassed" by better solutions compiling to html, css, js.

Then huge frameworks arrived to try to organize the mess we'd created. Making devs further than ever from html, css, js.

Remember the old saw: Sure I understand JS, I use jQuery every day! Er, but how about closures? direct DOM use via JS? And so on.

To be fair, jQuery and later CoffeeScript, improved JS considerably.

I don't get the feeling that TS is going to help JS, but hopefully I'm wrong. But unarguably it is SPLITTING the JS ecosystem into warring camps.