You might be right about C++/Rust but I hear constant complaints from C#, Java, and Go devs about JS. It feels like about half of them would jump ship immediate

You might be right about C++/Rust but I hear constant complaints from C#, Java, and Go devs about JS. It feels like about half of them would jump ship immediately given another choice. The truth is that even with all the advancements JS has made the tooling and features are still years behind some other mainstream languages. The transpilers don't work that great and don't produce standard bytecode, in this regard WASM will be a game changer.