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It's been used as a general purpose programming language for over a decade. It is a 'boring technology' nowadays and hardly exotic.

Of course, you could decide to do something exotic with it (edge rendering, data programming, whatever) but that's not a problem with the language but people wanting to stretch themselves...




It still sucks by default.

https://i.redd.it/h7nt4keyd7oy.jpg

Yes, the ecosystem is pretty mature, we have things like ESlint, TypeScript, Babel, TC39, and so on.




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