Many languages have these things. The problem is this spurious inference drawn from package count to language superiority. In reality what's popular is targeti

Many languages have these things. The problem is this spurious inference drawn from package count to language superiority. In reality what's popular is targeting browsers, and there simply aren't any other languages with first-class support by browsers no matter how much we want them. This isn't a matter of Javascript being better than everything else, it's a matter of historical accident and network effects.