The author makes two decent points:<p>1. Javascript popularity is tied to web popularity<p>2. Web popularity is shrinking<p>But he makes it in such a histrionic way that it&#x27;s hard to focus on that over his bombast.<p>You can sound the alarms over almost any language if you want too, it&#x27;s fun but hardly informative.<p>Java - only for companies that don&#x27;t want to be agile<p>Python - Great for hacking on the weekends, but no killer use case<p>Ruby - Only has Rails, and the web is shrinking<p>Haskell&#x2F;Scala&#x2F;Whatever - Never gonna break out of a university<p>These are well worn arguments that don&#x27;t really capture that jobs and companies tech stacks are much more nuanced than these simple statements. If you care about code, you&#x27;ll find work, no matter what language beguiled you first. If anything, Javascript hasn&#x27;t beguiled a generation of developers, the web has. And if we move on from the web, we&#x27;ll move on from JS, and as long as we care about what&#x27;s next, we&#x27;ll thrive.