There are projects of differing scope like TypeScript, ClojureScript, WebAssembly (not standardized but getting there) etc that are all helping to ease our pain

There are projects of differing scope like TypeScript, ClojureScript, WebAssembly (not standardized but getting there) etc that are all helping to ease our pain. Javascript isn't going away but writing in pure JavaScript is. Combine those with Babel or other ES6 transpilers, a linting and build system, and you've got yourself a pretty decent environment. Personally I find working with JS far more fun (this phrase is used loosely) than working with Java.