I touch on it a little bit here: https://spion.github.io/posts/javascript-is-not-cancer.html https://spion.github.io/posts/javascript-is-not-cancer.html TLDR:

I touch on it a little bit here: https://spion.github.io/posts/javascript-is-not-cancer.html https://spion.github.io/posts/javascript-is-not-cancer.html TLDR: I believe its mostly due to the lack of basic language facilities in pre-ES6 JS. With ES6 covering the basics this will probably slow down (At the very least people will stop writing their own module and object systems)