Maybe because Javascript achieved that growth and subsequent ubiquity not on its technical merits but because and only because it was the de facto language of t

Maybe because Javascript achieved that growth and subsequent ubiquity not on its technical merits but because and only because it was the de facto language of the web (and still is to this day for a reason that still eludes me). Funny how the number of languages a programmer can pick from is growing every day, but on the one HUGE platform that is the web, it's Javascript or nothing. And by funny, I really mean extremely annoying and a severe regression.