It's interesting to take a look at the beginnings of the web, and how 3 competing industrial strength web application technologies eventually lost out to the dark horse JavaScript. (Keep in mind this isn't the era of JavaScript ES6, it's closer to the 1.0 timeframe, and the word "Live" of LiveScript still had a coat of whiteout on top of it and the word "Java" written on top in marker by a marketroid try to ride on Sun's coattails.)
The three frontrunner technologies for web applications was Java, Flash, and Silverlight. Yet in the end, like the little engine that could, JavaScript eventually deposed all the competition.
I think the reason why too many people use javascript it's because you can use it in frontend or backend of your application. And i think it is much faster than others. And also it uses ajax/rest api :D
Javascript had gotten a lot faster in recent times, that's true but compared to anything close to native it's still slow and the single thread nature of node.js makes it terrible for anything cpu intensive.
You can write and consume rest apis with pretty much every other language as well.
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It's interesting to take a look at the beginnings of the web, and how 3 competing industrial strength web application technologies eventually lost out to the dark horse JavaScript. (Keep in mind this isn't the era of JavaScript ES6, it's closer to the 1.0 timeframe, and the word "Live" of LiveScript still had a coat of whiteout on top of it and the word "Java" written on top in marker by a marketroid try to ride on Sun's coattails.)
The three frontrunner technologies for web applications was Java, Flash, and Silverlight. Yet in the end, like the little engine that could, JavaScript eventually deposed all the competition.
I think the reason why too many people use javascript it's because you can use it in frontend or backend of your application. And i think it is much faster than others. And also it uses ajax/rest api :D
Javascript had gotten a lot faster in recent times, that's true but compared to anything close to native it's still slow and the single thread nature of node.js makes it terrible for anything cpu intensive.
You can write and consume rest apis with pretty much every other language as well.