"It's popular because it's in the browser. Everything else is just Stockholm-syndrome." Not quite. JS is a great language for doing async. I much prefer Node

"It's popular because it's in the browser. Everything else is just Stockholm-syndrome." Not quite. JS is a great language for doing async. I much prefer Node.js over CGI, Java or Ruby back-ends. But yes, there is some craziness given how for so many other reasons, JS is not a great language.