There's some of us out there who don't like Groovy's ecosystem or Python's syntax. Groovy changes its direction every few years -- first it was a scripting lang

There's some of us out there who don't like Groovy's ecosystem or Python's syntax. Groovy changes its direction every few years -- first it was a scripting language, then a MOP for Grails, then a DSL for Gradle et al, then statically-compiled to compete with Java, and soon a toy language for Android. Python's indent-based syntax puts a lot of people off. Javascript, while not great, doesn't have the killers that other languages and echosystems have.