This is possibly going to be downvoted to oblivion because it's a "negative" post, but it's very true for many of us.
A lot of people, myself included, would rather not do any Javascript at all. Particularly those of us who dealt with it early on, since the 90s. It's a pain, a moving target of practices, compatibility and libraries, and quite simply, we hate it. There is massive demand for anything that successfully abstracts as much JS as possible out of the picture. Libraries like Jquery, Prototype, Mootools, ... and whole substitutive systems like Coffeescript, Clojurescript and those others listed.
Happens to Java too. These languages are intensely disliked by many people who have to deal with them because they are infrastructural in their environments. Their architecture is often forced on people who'd much rather program in something else.
A lot of people, myself included, would rather not do any Javascript at all. Particularly those of us who dealt with it early on, since the 90s. It's a pain, a moving target of practices, compatibility and libraries, and quite simply, we hate it. There is massive demand for anything that successfully abstracts as much JS as possible out of the picture. Libraries like Jquery, Prototype, Mootools, ... and whole substitutive systems like Coffeescript, Clojurescript and those others listed.
Happens to Java too. These languages are intensely disliked by many people who have to deal with them because they are infrastructural in their environments. Their architecture is often forced on people who'd much rather program in something else.