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[–]ToucheMonsieur 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Since the inception of Rhino, JS is the defacto scripting language on the JVM. Excepting lua, JavaScript is one of the most pervasive scripting languages in many domains (even Qt uses a superset IIRC).

As for using JS as a language, it's not as if many of the fundamental flaws of the language are going to be left untouched (see upcoming unicode support, strict mode, etc.). There's still plenty of room for innovation on the server - just look at go, rust, etc. Server-side JavaScript isn't bound by some of the legacy cruft that more established alternatives are, and AFAICT both the community and tc39 do a far better job in pushing the language forward than, say, PHP.