> will it even by worth it beyond a few specific applications? I'm sure if you sampled all developers the number that would say Javascript is their favorite pr

> will it even by worth it beyond a few specific applications? I'm sure if you sampled all developers the number that would say Javascript is their favorite programming language would be in a substantial minority. So if it makes it easier for developers to write client side code in their preferred language its worth it. That being said, I'm worried a bit. Javascript being awful has traditionally kept developers doing as much runtime work as possible server side. In the last 5 years the rapid growth of JS libraries, client side frameworks, and recently ES6 have all reduced the pain points and correlated to a dramatic rise in client side code being loaded on users computers with corresponding huge page size bloat.