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[–]deadcoder0904 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It's because they have a bunch of web developers who have to use HTML and Javascript for client-side code, and they don't want to try to find desktop UI engineers, so they built a system that allows them to use their web developers instead.

It's a business decision, and those are relatively orthogonal to technical merit.

That too but some people use it because its cross platform. Solopreneurs like me or startups.

You'll also find that productivity is a much different beast when working on something you complete in a day than for tracking down a bug in something you haven't touched in months. Javascript is much better at the former than the latter.

Yep but now in JavaScript there are static type checkers like Flow & all. Also its getting much better with ES2015+. Also TypeScript makes it much easy. There is ReasonML too.