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by ethbr0 2024 days ago
The relative trajectories of Java and JavaScript over the years are fascinating.

Java became a language that you can toss a 100-developers onto a project for, and incrementally grind out something that has a mostly-consistent architecture. Aka the perfect IBM Services language.

JavaScript became a language you can toss up a SPA in a day from boilerplate glueing together frameworks and only writing the use-specific bits. Aka the perfect web developer language.

As other commenter said, bad developers are probably a consequence of demand > supply for any language.