JS is a most popular technology, and second most wanted technology on the market, according to Stack Overflow 2018 survey. NodeJS is all over backend job ads. React vs Angular is the new tabs vs spaces.

Here we have a gem. JavaScript’s author saying that JS was meant to be what BASIC was to C++ and that was the sales pitch for it. This post is not about technicalities of JS. It’s about how our pluralistic ignorance allowed toy language to first become de-facto language in the browser, then work it’s way to the server side and now being used for things such as console emulation and data science.

As the title indicates, I consider JS being popular a bad thing. To begin with, JS is a very bad language. The Wat talk does brilliant job of explaining what is wrong.