I don't like Javascript at all, even with all the linters I could find its too easy to make mistakes. Too many old broken language constructs they can't fix. Java's strongest sell has always been an extremely reliable platform, strong typing, and solid standard libraries, things I also can't say about JS.

Typescript on the other hand is glorious. My favorite language now. Fixes all the issues with using JS for large applications besides flaky libraries. I still don't think its ready for server-side development, not until they add threads (WTF is taking so long). When you're running on a 32 core system node doesn't make any sense.

Yes, I know there's various workarounds like launching multiple copies of your app, but that still limits parallelism on the app level and its pretty lame.