Aka "javascript is not a real language", I thought we were done with that since almost a decade :)
Maybe you should consider that just because a language doesn't work like what you're used to, it doesn't mean it's a bad language. Because saying nowadays that javascript is not worth learning sounds pretty absurd. Sure, you can live without it. But that's probably the most useful language to know as a "second language", for all its various applications and because when you want to add scripting in your tool, you know javascript is a solid choice for its penetration rate.
Abstracting from js, rates and popularity of the only available solution are not an argument. It is like asking 'but who else?' in a dictatorship country. Pretty absurd, right. You folks are so blind that don't even understand how this straightforward non-blocking code works in decent languages:
sql = client.read()
res = remote_db.query(sql)
client.write(res),
still writing tons of boilerplates and spaghetti instead. We drown in happy ignorants, and they can't stop doing this to us, because they're happy with penetration rates, not technologies.
The fact that the big web scripting monopoly influences other scripting and embedding markets is self-explanatory.
As for 'second' language, I'm pretty sure I'm not happy to do main work with a 'second' language, because it is second only after top 3-5 that I use on daily basis.
This is like saying "just because you are used to having a proper toilet, it doesn't mean you should have one and you should consider living without it"
Maybe you should consider that just because a language doesn't work like what you're used to, it doesn't mean it's a bad language. Because saying nowadays that javascript is not worth learning sounds pretty absurd. Sure, you can live without it. But that's probably the most useful language to know as a "second language", for all its various applications and because when you want to add scripting in your tool, you know javascript is a solid choice for its penetration rate.