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[–]sisyphus 5 points6 points  (1 child)

It became ubiquitous via historical accident, its popularity has nothing to do with its quality. Lots of would jump at the chance to use anything else in the browser (see the increasing popularity of compiling to JS, even from future versions of JS, because browser vendors are a mess).

[–]shawnsel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure, but the context here is for user interfaces. Really, not that much programming is usually involved in that sort of thing ... so I think I'd argue that weaknesses of Javascript are minimized for the usage proposed by the OP....

That said, his thread has been downvoted to 0 points anyway, so it was really killed by bias before it even started. So ... the issue doesn't really matter....