The two things i have to say in reply to that. First, i think there's a lot of bunk common wisdom about tradeoffs as well. Scala's a great example of a coheren

The two things i have to say in reply to that. First, i think there's a lot of bunk common wisdom about tradeoffs as well. Scala's a great example of a coherent merger of object oriented programming and functional program, two paradigms that have for whatever reason been typically seen as oppositional (please note, i'm not accusing you of that, but i think it's reasonable to ask which things you think are unsuitable, understanding that there are tradeoffs). Second, when you're talking about suitability, i have to ask about what your constraints are. If all languages have their tradeoffs, then i don't see the problem with saying that JavaScript is as good a general purpose programming language as any other. Sure it's got tradeoffs, but JS as a language and as a programming platform has really hit a firm stride, and clearly has at least a couple years of solid growth ahead of it. Yes, JS like any other programming language, isn't perfect, but it is going to continue getting better and growing into new niches.