Yes you have a point. But otoh, the history of software has been one of more and more abstraction and code generation. This argument can be made (not saying yo

Yes you have a point. But otoh, the history of software has been one of more and more abstraction and code generation. This argument can be made (not saying you are making it) to say something like "People should actually learn and use Assembler than demand that their C compiler do it for them. Refusing to learn a key technology of Computing is not something that I'd like to encourage". Many languages generate C code. Should everyone learn C because it is a foundational language? (and it is a foundational language). Do you insist all Django users learn C? Why not? It is ok to have a choice of learning Javascript or not. Just like people have the choice to learn Assembler or have it generated for them. To learn C or have it generated for them. And framework devs have the freedom to choose whether their framework supports javascript code generation or not. There aren't really any good or evil choices. Rails is cool. Django is, too (I prefer Django fwiw).