JavaScript delenda est. It is to the 2010s as Java was to the 2000s and C was to the 1990s: unjustly popular, and a step backwards from better, deployable technologies. Its deep design flaws are obscured by its superficial design flaws.

Choosing JavaScript is a very different mistake than choosing C (it is at least memory safe, which counts for something). But it is deeply disheartening to imagine how many man-centuries (or man-millennia?) of work have gone into the ramshackle apparatus which is the JavaScript ecosystem while better ecosystems wither and starve for lack of involvement.

JavaScript delenda est.