"It's a rather obvious fact that ECMAScript isn't going away soon, if ever."
> That is sad enough, but there is still hope that it can become redundant. Sigh. Get a clue: [https://medium.com/javascript-scene/javascript-training-sucks-284b53666245#.1nbomrtm5](https://medium.com/javascript-scene/javascript-training-sucks-284b53666245#.1nbomrtm5) "Software is eating the world, the web is eating software, and JavaScript rules the web. You can code in other languages, of course, but Node.JS is taking over the server side, and compile-to-JavaScript languages make up a tiny fraction of the programming language popularity rankings. Npm, JavaScript’s standard package repository, is the largest package repository in the world, and it’s still growing very quickly. The fact is, most of the world’s software infrastructure is heavily dependent on JavaScript: perhaps the world’s most misunderstood programming language."
