Comment You can't polish a turd but you can roll it in gli (Score 1) 354
All they need to do now is shoehorn PHP and MySQL in there somewhere, code it all in notepad and you have the development stack from hell.
JavaScript is a horrid language. Nonetheless, it's the only widely supported language for client-side browser code, so we're stuck with it there.
But why on Earth would anyone even consider running this abomination on a server, when there are many other, better languages designed specifically for server-side code?
Completely agree with everything you said, Efforts should be made to replace it with something better on the client side rather than helping it spread like some horrific cancer to the server side as well.
Pound for pound, the amoeba is the most vicious animal on earth.