Why Javascript in 2016 ?
Many of my friends express their surprise when I say I chose to learn JavaScript in 2016. With so many cool languages to learn, why using a "toy language" of the past instead of, let's say Haskell, Go, Nimrod, Rust (just to name some)? First and foremost, for me it's not as much as learning JavaScript in 2016 as learning a new language in 2016. But whatever your reasons : not become fossilized, improve your efficiency with new tricks/paradigms/tools or just plain fun you'll probably feel the urge to learn a new language sooner or later. This bring us back to the question why JavaScript in 2016? Reason to choose JavaScript Ubiquity It could be handy to be able to do everything in one unique language (from command line tools, front-end Web dev, server coding, phone applications to robots programming) and JavaScript now allows that. That wasn't the case before but with node/express/commander/ionic/cylon.js (to name few) you'll have all your needs