When looking at the plethora of existing programming languages, one cannot help but notice the raw dominance of JavaScript. It’s interesting to note that JavaScript is also becoming more and more popular over time, especially in the current day.

The combination of JavaScript being so closely tied with modern browsers, the ability to rapidly develop applications (both mobile or otherwise), the rise of new technologies such as Node, Google Chrome’s V8 engine, React, and NPM, its quick learning curve, popularity of JSON, as well as the most recent developments in ECMA standards (ES6 at the moment) all have helped to make JavaScript to become as dominant as it is.

Perhaps I’m biased, but I see JavaScript as quickly becoming the king of software development. Either by way of the iron price or other means.