My least favorite JavaScript argument is “Instead of using one good language for the backend and one lousy one for the front end, we’ll rewrite ALL the code in

My least favorite JavaScript argument is “Instead of using one good language for the backend and one lousy one for the front end, we’ll rewrite ALL the code in the lousy language to keep it easy!” I fail to understand why anybody would use JavaScript - a language so bad everybody uses a series of wrappers around it - for anything they didn’t absolutely have to (e.g. client code). The entire point of the MVC architecture is to allow you to pick the best tools for the job. EDIT: I’m not saying PHP is good, though it’s better than JS. And TypeScript is still JavaScript with extra steps.