> The total absence of high quality software written in javascript is sufficient evidence to conclude that javascript is not a tool suitable for serious applica

> The total absence of high quality software written in javascript is sufficient evidence to conclude that javascript is not a tool suitable for serious application development. a little overstatement, but okay. js is very suitable for this in my opinion. i don't what counts as "serious" application development in your world, but i've seen quite many good, performant applications around written in js. and servers too!