It certainly is in the last decade or so. Python is a language from the early nineties and took decades to achieve it's current level of popularity. Javascript

It certainly is in the last decade or so. Python is a language from the early nineties and took decades to achieve it's current level of popularity. Javascript was backed by Netscape, and later by Microsoft/IE. It would never have succeeded without corporate backing and being on of the 2.5 usable languages on the web (Java was the other one, I'm counting ActiveX/VBScript as half)