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Javascript is great in its original use case, which is creating a small layer of browser side scripting to add some procedural code on top of your already delivered html and css. Huge javascript frameworks like Angular and React are an overcomplicated mess, and javascript is a horrible server side solution. Why in the world would someone want to use javascript over java on a server? You don't want a compiler and strongly typed language to "move your development left"? Node is a complete CF of a solution. Horrible horrible idea taken to its painful extreme. People are using typescript now because they want a more structured javascript?? That is a logical smell to tell you that the decision was bad to begin with.