There are a lot of programmers coming from other functional programming languages to Javascript, bringing a lot of ideas from their own language to &quot;make Javascript better&quot;.<p>On top of that, there are also &quot;transpiler folks&quot;: Ruby |&gt; CoffeeScript, C#&#x2F;F# |&gt; TypeScript, etc...<p>The classical Javascript programmer might be the last of a dying breed.