Very true. I think it's also important to consider not only how JavaScript may influence developers while they create software, but also what its voluntary use

Very true. I think it's also important to consider not only how JavaScript may influence developers while they create software, but also what its voluntary use says about the developers' experience, knowledge and judgment. It's one thing to use JavaScript when you're doing client-side web development, where it's basically the only option, even if it's dressed up as CoffeeScript or TypeScript. But it makes absolutely no sense to voluntarily use it when C, C++, Python and even C# and Vala are available. Doing so would be a significant show of very bad judgment, in my opinion. If you need performance or power, using C or C++ makes perfect sense. If minimizing development time and effort is important, then Python will work extremely well. Vala and C# generally fix somewhere in between. So there's absolutely no place or need for JavaScript, which is inferior in every respect. No intelligent developer should ever feel the need to choose it when developing GNOME applications, given the much superior alternatives. Anyone who does want to use it probably shouldn't be contributing to a project like GNOME in the first place.