I dislike JS, but love TS. But really, who cares about me anyway?

The big picture is that JS is the English of software languages. It’s not beautiful, it steals from everyone else, and it’s never the best tool, but it’s becoming - more and more - rarely the wrong tool.

I expect this trend to continue. Some genius will get JS to compile to native bytecode (WASM is the intermediate step). And, it too will be neither the best language for the job, nor the wrong tool for the job.

The proof is in the pudding, nothing so wrong (JS) can be so right - and yet it survives, nay thrives.