An internet writes a cheerful, helpful guide for dealing with the fact that like a sort of digital ice-nine, JavaScript turns everything it touches into a sluggish, half-finished, poorly-integrated pile of shit much like itself. Most of Hackernews assures itself that this is the natural order of things. One Hackernews traces "new" and "exciting" JavaScript features as far back as SICP, the Torah of the Scheme cult; his voice, along with those of the other dissenters, is quickly drowned out.
This perfectly captures how I feel about the proliferation of JavaScript. Thanks!
The way I see it, people try to push JavaScript everywhere, no matter how the domain is ill-suited for web technologies. We have even JS frameworks for microcontrollers and embedded development, for goodness' sake! What I fear is that this steals the mindshare of younger generation, and we'll be flooded with half-assed JS non-solutions to everything, while saner approaches fall off the hype train and wither away.
