Add to that amazing tooling with hot reload (bye bye 2-5 minutes compile times), billions of investments from Big tech to make it better and faster, ability to reuse same code between mobile/backend/frontend, integration into browser and you’ll quickly find that JS literally has no rival.
https://web.dev/case-studies/google-sheets-wasmgc
And with the advent of WebAssembly, any language integrates with the browser.
So why am I using JavaScript again?
I’m not sure what you were aiming for here, but you only reinforced me that JS is amazing if rewriting calculation worker yields only 2x improvement.
> So why am I using JavaScript again?
Re-read my comment, it’s all there.
Try not to worry about it. Welcome your WebAssembly overlords and be happy.
No, it’s not a narrow use case. I wake up my phone to spreadsheet calculation, I open HN - a little bit more spreadsheet, my kettle heats water via power of spreadsheet algorithm. Amazon purchase? Only via spreadsheets.