JS has a better library-integration story than Go does, since there are so many JS implementations in other languages. Go drags all its runtime threads along with it.

But fair point :)

I used to hate JS, but honestly, it made a lot of really smart decisions for dynamic documents. Some decisions weren’t great, but somehow they didn’t go as far wrong as C++ managed to in the same era…

Browsers picked... until recently it was the only way to run in browsers.......