I think people forget the rather overwhelming amount of crappy bloated desktop apps we had (and still have). There isn't anything inheriently bad with JavaScrip

I think people forget the rather overwhelming amount of crappy bloated desktop apps we had (and still have). There isn't anything inheriently bad with JavaScript. Webapps have strong points, and weak points, and should be used where it makes sense. But the developers developing bloated code are most visible in the last shiny thing, which happens to be web and JavaScript. Before that it was mobile apps.