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Prototyping fast does not guarantee shipping robust software fast, which is in part why the JS ecosystem has been having problems. To apply the common construc

• patates 6y ago
  > (...) JS ecosystem has been having problems what problems? Yeah, stuff like left-pad happened with NPM, but that has nothing to do with sandboxed scripting in browser. Also within my already-depressingly-long career, I had more problems with deploying "robust" .NET desktop apps (WPF & Forms) and even Qt based supposedly "cross-platform" apps than web apps. Web is the most robust platform I've ever worked with, and that's by a huge margin. JS as a language has problems[1] but the idea behind it proved itself to be great. [1]: and with the latest additions it's one of the better programming languages to work with, although the standard library sucks (or more like, nearly non-existent). But that's totally another topic.