>> JS is pretty slow (It uses an interpreter!) The notion of using it on the backend is debatable.
It is pretty fast. It has a world class VM with an optimising JIT compiler. V8 is considerably faster than many other interpreted language, Ruby, Python etc. It's being used on the backend by many smart companies.
>> As for the hardware thing [...] It just a way to let web devs do something on the hardware without bothering to learn an actual low level language.
I know C. I use it when necessary but I'd rather write JS. Apparently so would plenty of other people. It's not about laziness.
It is pretty fast. It has a world class VM with an optimising JIT compiler. V8 is considerably faster than many other interpreted language, Ruby, Python etc. It's being used on the backend by many smart companies.
>> As for the hardware thing [...] It just a way to let web devs do something on the hardware without bothering to learn an actual low level language.
I know C. I use it when necessary but I'd rather write JS. Apparently so would plenty of other people. It's not about laziness.