Ha, I can understand how you're baffled. As a primarily-front-end dev working with JS most of the time, I'd say the reason why it's worth it is that there's cur

Ha, I can understand how you're baffled. As a primarily-front-end dev working with JS most of the time, I'd say the reason why it's worth it is that there's currently just no other language that runs in the front-end, or that is as ubiquitous a scripting language. Much as my dislike of JS grows as I venture further into other programming ecosystems, I still love the ability to muck about with any web page I come across. I love being able to use the Chrome/Firefox devtools for debugging, and haven't found anything quite as nice outside of the browser. I love being able to package a bunch of js and a minimal html file, and just dump it anywhere that provides basic hosting. It only barely offsets the many problems I have with JS, but because my day-job is mostly front-end, I need to deal with these problems anyways. But man I'm looking forward to a situation where I could use <preferred language> as a drop-in replacement for javascript.