Why a JavaScript hater thinks everyone needs to learn JavaScript in the next year

I’ve long looked at JavaScript as a second-class citizen in the programming world. Early on, it was the source of numerous security problems; it was a nice bit of glue to patch together HTML applications with a bit of styling, but nobody would use it for serious code; and so forth. Java, Ruby, Python, they were the languages for doing real work.

But my attitude toward JavaScript has changed completely in the past few years. JavaScript has “grown up.”

Source: decodering

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    Totally agree with this! With the lack of flash support on mobile platforms, java is king!
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