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Eduardo

That is what a Java developer said 5 years ago about scala and clojure. There is a wave of functional languages. You eaven have lambdas now in c++, c# and java.
I don't think we will be throwing our macs and start using lisp machines, but with webassembly just around the corner, who knows in what kind of language we will be programming in five years.
I never expected to be programming a backend in javascript, but it turns out to be very eficient and stable.
All I say is keep your mind open and learn the best practices for each language and paradigm. And what is old today, might be new next year. Server side javascript was the new new in the 90, it hit the mainstream with node.