Because (IMO) 1. Looks like it attracts a lot of talent these days 2. It's basically so well designed that its smooth learning curve has enabled generations o

Because (IMO) 1. Looks like it attracts a lot of talent these days 2. It's basically so well designed that its smooth learning curve has enabled generations of people to develop cs skills/get jobs/build stuff independently 3. While this and the previous points are not here to state that the JS universe is perfect, I have seen far worse stuff haunting the industry in the past: Php and Java alone have produced thousands of so-called professionals who still have trouble distinguishing db from backend from frontend, and have no remote idea of what dependency management is whatsoever.