Comment by cztomsik

JS was my second language (around the same age as he is, which is more than 15 years ago) and it is still my favourite one. You give zero arguments but I won't make the same mistake:

- devtools are unmatched for browser development (and getting better for node)

- absolutely best language for prototyping (dyn. typing, monkey-patching, eval, and a lot of other "evil" things you usually don't need in further phases but it's really great to have them for this exploratory phase)

- I respect that some people prefer static typing and code-completion but I prefer writing tests and having few well-known libraries for which I don't need completion at all

- no threads, no mutexes, no locks

- object literal, rest-spread, destructuring, classes are just ordinary (and mutable) objects, etc...

If you think people are doing JS just because it's the only language in the browser (not true anymore) you should seriously reconsider. There were to-js compilers before and it was always awful (remember gwt? dart?)

Of course, it depends on use-case, JS is not the best language for everything.