Nobody lives in a vacuum, and there are many reasons for not being able to choose the techs you will have to work with. In fact, the main reason is that there

Nobody lives in a vacuum, and there are many reasons for not being able to choose the techs you will have to work with. In fact, the main reason is that there is no current other client side web language than Javascript. We don't use JS because it's great. It's a badly designed languages, and half of the stack we use are hacks to make it usable. We use it because there is nothing else.