The story goes that I have played with many languages, but only used small amounts of js as needed before building an extension for chrome. I have never found a language to be so unfriendly to n00bs. One is absolutely required to learn third party frameworks and libraries just to do anything useful. There is a never-ending list of basic things that are not supported by the language. I have never had to use a third party tool just to check syntax in any other language. I don't see any trade-offs to using javascript at all. It is a language just like most C-based languages with everything chopped out of it. What benefits does javascript have over any other language?

> These days I mostly use Javascript

You don't use javascript, you use a framework for javascript. In fact, because browsers don't fully support EMCA 6, you are probably even using a tool to convert your javascript code.

I absolutely abhor javascript, to the point where I stopped working on my chrome extension (which is < 500 lines at this point) until I figure out how to do it in another language. Which will probably be clojurescript or typescript.