Meh.<p>We should all just decide on PHP and solve interesting problems instead.<p>We should all just decide on Fortran and solve interesting problems instead.<p>We should all just decide on perfocards and solve interesting problems instead.<p>We should all just decide on slide rulers [1] and solve interesting problems instead.<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_rule" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_rule</a>
But javascript has serious flaws. It doesn't have static typing, advance language functionality like namespaces and generics were afterthoughts, and it was a half-baked language. The original language was supposed to be more FP.<p>I'd rather support lua, c# or python being a better alternative.
>We have the chance of running the same language on the front-end and the back-end<p>yeah, I can't wait for a fully fledged webserver written in JS