Ubiquity is one reason. Ultimately, the "horrible problems" and "strange bugs" just turned out to be "unfamiliar differences." Also, newer JavaScript runtimes (

Ubiquity is one reason. Ultimately, the "horrible problems" and "strange bugs" just turned out to be "unfamiliar differences." Also, newer JavaScript runtimes (V8) tend to smoke other dynamic languages in speed tests: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/which-programming-languages-are-fastest.php http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/which-programming-lang... – so it's not "slow-ish" so much as "really, really fast." ;)