13 years. It started in ~2003 that JavaScript as a whole was being approached differently. By 2006 a LOT had changed.<p>In 2008 V8 was released and 2009 Node was released. But that is merely the newest epoch of the current wave.<p>JavaScript has been taken seriously by those paying attention for ~13 years. They&#x27;ve been building the web with it while others complain about it.<p>So sorry, I rounded up by 2 years. But hyperbolic? Not really.