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Oh, I don't for a second dispute that JavaScript is a much more elegant language than Java, and I would also put it on par with Python. Remember, jQuery is always my first choice.

I only assert that once your (well, my) code base grows beyond a certain size---for me, a few thousand lines, but probably an individual threshold---JS can start to become unwieldy. That "unwieldy-ness" is a problem that Java/GWT does solve. In these cases I prefer Java precisely because it is more constraining.