One thing we can say for sure is JS has an excellent PR guy!

I also think it’s like most things in tech: there is a clear “flavor of the month.”

In this case, JS has been the flavor of the last decade..I’m a big fan of Swift — but I’m willing to admit that it doesn’t solve every problem I have, and in many cases it was developed to be a solution to so many questions nobody was actually asking..so it’s necessary to admit that it’s not the be all, end all so many of us want to claim it is.

Unfortunately though, too many folks aren’t willing to admit the flaws associated with a singular solution, and because of that — we end up where we are now.

In terms of a “one size fits all” solution, JS may come closer than most..but I don’t think we want to realize a world where we’re forced to utilize a singular tool when we’re capable of carrying an entire toolbox of perfectly capable tools that in the end all get us to the same destination/realization.

Which is exactly why I agree with you — I’d like to see the developer community move into a frame of mind where we don’t think in terms of “best” or “only”; but we’re more versed in “what works best” or “if we could only.”

Unfortunately due to the fragmentation of programming languages in general, I don’t exactly see us moving that quickly or aggressively toward that goal.