Not the OP you replied to, but I've worked in about a dozen languages in 15+ years and I also think Javascript is fine. It will never be #1, but it does a good

Not the OP you replied to, but I've worked in about a dozen languages in 15+ years and I also think Javascript is fine. It will never be #1, but it does a good job for the things it is good at. The fact that you mentioned Elm is funny to me as it is so low ranked in terms of usage or desire that it doesn't even show on StackOverflow's survey results.