> This is because JS is a good choice for most things. It really isn't, though. Maybe less bad with ES6. I feel like this was thrown in to mollify the score

> This is because JS is a good choice for most things. It really isn't, though. Maybe less bad with ES6. I feel like this was thrown in to mollify the scores of people who <strike>wasted their lives with</strike> invested a lot into javascript. I know the unfortunate story of how javascript came to be the "web language". It's a shame even a tiny bit more thought didn't go into it.