Ubiquitous JavaScript and newcomer Swift garnered 2014 programming language of the year honors from respective ranking organizations.

IMHO today Javascript can help to improve that balance—if used wisely. Said that, I think there is no need to generally minimize Javascript usage today any more to keep that balance.

npm, Inc. today announced results from its 2018 report on the state of JavaScript, and published JavaScript predictions for 2019 and beyond.