If few people hate programming in Javascript then explain this to me:
https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/list-of-langu...
https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/list-of-langu...
Also, compare this to the number of people who are just using JS normally worldwide, then we'll have perspective of just how many more people are just fine with JS Vs the people who feel the need to make these.
My guess would be that the number of people who like JS and use just normal JS in their projects is far far greater in number than the people who use compile-to-js solutions. So in comparision to the former, the latter group could be called as 'few'.