JavaScript has grown beyond recognition in the last 10 years. The main reason to use it is because it is everywhere already: it's in your browser, in your PDF viewer, even your old flash plugin, the server and even embedded in microcontrollers.
It may not be the most beautiful or effective language, but it gets the job done. Miss strict types? Use either TypeScript or Flow. Tired of waiting for new language standards to become usable? Babel your way out of that. You don't like to write JS at all? Compile your Java or C(++) Code to JS using GWT or emscripten.
Not performant enough? Since Google broke into the market with V8, JS performance gains are found left, right and center - not only for your product, but for every product using JavaScript that runs V8 - and other engines will follow or even outperform V8.
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JavaScript has grown beyond recognition in the last 10 years. The main reason to use it is because it is everywhere already: it's in your browser, in your PDF viewer, even your old flash plugin, the server and even embedded in microcontrollers.
It may not be the most beautiful or effective language, but it gets the job done. Miss strict types? Use either TypeScript or Flow. Tired of waiting for new language standards to become usable? Babel your way out of that. You don't like to write JS at all? Compile your Java or C(++) Code to JS using GWT or emscripten.
Not performant enough? Since Google broke into the market with V8, JS performance gains are found left, right and center - not only for your product, but for every product using JavaScript that runs V8 - and other engines will follow or even outperform V8.