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JavaScript is an awful language, we all can agree on that, right? But it has reached universal adoption, it's widespread from in-app scripts, through embedded devices, back-end services and front-end.

I have the same opinion on Go - it's awful, it fails to deliver its promises, but it became popular because it was "a google thing".

Google itself supports go internally, but it is nowhere near being ubiquitous or even recommended - I think that tells you something about it too.