JS had the advantage of being the default language of the web current younger generation of programmers grew up with, and then tons of resources were thrown at

JS had the advantage of being the default language of the web current younger generation of programmers grew up with, and then tons of resources were thrown at it. I'm sure Python, Ruby and PHP would benefit just as much from such attention, although I guess Python has had that in scientific computing, and PHP with recent 7 version and FB.