JavaScript has become more popular than I ever imagined. Since my first experiments in the 2000s, to AJAX to jQuery, then node, npm, Ecmascript 6, React MERN and Angular MEAN stacks, and current day js frameworks, the explosion of JavaScript continues to evolve.

While I spend the majority of time nowadays writing Typescript, a superset of JavaScript, I still often interact with JS on legacy projects.

JavaScript can be frustrating and freeing at the same time. But you wouldn't have the web today if not for the way JS enabled it be.