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> will it even by worth it beyond a few specific applications?

I'm sure if you sampled all developers the number that would say Javascript is their favorite programming language would be in a substantial minority. So if it makes it easier for developers to write client side code in their preferred language its worth it.

That being said, I'm worried a bit. Javascript being awful has traditionally kept developers doing as much runtime work as possible server side. In the last 5 years the rapid growth of JS libraries, client side frameworks, and recently ES6 have all reduced the pain points and correlated to a dramatic rise in client side code being loaded on users computers with corresponding huge page size bloat.



> I'm sure if you sampled all developers the number that would say Javascript is their favorite programming language would be in a substantial minority.

I wouldn't be so sure of that.


Agreed, it'd likely be one of the largest shares


You should check some of the SO developer surveys. I think you'd be surprised...

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2017#technology-mo...




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