JavaScript is a great browser scripting language because it's the only browser scripting language. That's a whole realm of good times, and people can and should go nuts with it there.
The problem started a decade or so ago with Node. Too many people only learn JavaScript, become psychologically dependent on it, and they all collectively took it too far outside of a browser.
ECMAScript is a general purpose standard, but it was invented retroactively. Node is not ECMAScript in a server-side ECMAScript engine, it's JavaScript in a browser JavaScript engine. That's just too much of a force fit, and has wasted too much potential for me to say anything positive about it.
The problem started a decade or so ago with Node. Too many people only learn JavaScript, become psychologically dependent on it, and they all collectively took it too far outside of a browser.
ECMAScript is a general purpose standard, but it was invented retroactively. Node is not ECMAScript in a server-side ECMAScript engine, it's JavaScript in a browser JavaScript engine. That's just too much of a force fit, and has wasted too much potential for me to say anything positive about it.