I'm at the end of my software development life cycle, but I've got the opposite perspective on java vs javascript. There's just so much boiler plate and unnecessary typing to implement solutions in java relative to javascript. The amount of stuff I can accomplish per line of code is significantly higher than any other language I've worked with, with possible exception being python.
Me too. And all I can do is point at Javascript in webpages. Which, as a Java dev (if I can still call myself that 15 years into doing all sorts of other stuff too), I want nothing to do with but somehow get dragged into all the time.
I can really relate with the idea that we're feeding the beast we built rather than the one borne of necessity. Unfortunately, which I'm sure the latter still exists, it's the former that always seems to pay the bills.