I see it as a very powerful language, which is why it is so easy to mess something up if you don&#x27;t know what you are doing.<p>Think of a carpenter.  A hand saw is much, much safer than a table saw, but if you mess up, you might have just lost a finger or two.  If you&#x27;re teaching a kid to work with wood, you let him use the hand saw, not the table saw, for obvious reasons.  Programming languages can be interpreted in the same vein.<p>Most of the article came across as condescending.  I see JavaScript as being a language that is only just now realizing it&#x27;s true potential.  Web 2.0 was &quot;coined&quot; 17 years ago, and truly got people&#x27;s attention 12 years ago.  Javascript in the browser, of course, predates that by half a decade.  Node.js only showed up 6 years ago, and has only recently gained traction in the last 3 years (IMO).<p>In other words, OF COURSE there&#x27;s going to be more front-end jobs for JS... it&#x27;s had a 2-decade runway!!!  Node, OTOH, is just now finding its feet in potential applications.  That doesn&#x27;t make me point at it and scoff, but rather to say &quot;this is where the innovation will be!&quot;