&gt;<i>It is, thus, risible that so many young people are entering the IT industry via the JavaScript route.</i><p>What&#x27;s actually risible is ignoring the fact that programming skills are hugely transferable between languages. I&#x27;m not much of a JS fan personally but JS encompasses a pretty good slice of programming paradigms : first class functions, callbacks&#x2F;CPS, async, oop, etc. I&#x27;m struggling to see how having a bunch of young programmers familiar with these concepts entering the industry could be bad.<p>I recall similar tutting back in the 80s about a whole generation being brain damaged by learning BASIC on micros. That generation did pretty well out of it as it turned out.