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Conventional wisdom: “It’s a toy! Fine for internal tools, but you couldn’t possibly write real production code that way.” In 1998, they said that about Java. In 2006, they said it about Rails. What are they saying that about today?
Non-rhetorical question
It was briefly node, but not anymore, given the large amount of BigCo buyin of the node ecosystem.
So what is it?
Could be a "No-code" as @rrhoover and many others have pointed in the space.https://medium.com/@rrhoover/the-rise-of-no-code-e733d7c0944d …
Two wild and very different guesses: @idrislang and @glitch
Functional languages maybe? Those aren't perceived as toys for beginners though, rather as toys for experts who are bored with writing "normal" code.
I think they are still saying that about JavaScript. While JavaScript is far from new, it advanced considerably over the past few years. Maybe things changed when JavaScript is used with Node, but not when it's used with Electron for example.
I'm blank, I don't know of anything? Maybe Flutter is still a bit far out atm? Any JS stuff I can think of is probably relatively accepted after node, angular,p/ react and Vue are all over the place. Not sure there's a language/framework. Have we learned?!
"What if we inline <whatever> into JavaScript?" eg React (in 2014), css-in-js (in 2018), wouldn't be surprised if 2019 is year of, like, containers in the browser
Scratch? 
Elixir maybe? Some people are using it "for real" already, but not that many. I feel like it's trending up, though.
I often hear stuff like that about Serverless and more generally the functions-as-a-service ecosystems like AWS Lambda/etc.
I feel like we kinda past that. Tools like docker now allow developers to sneak whatever they want to production. Long history of opensource projects that became highly successful and widely used in production before hitting 1.0 (often being as low as 0.2) also helped.
I have another non-rhetorical question, for both of you: What does it say about software eng as a maturing field, that easy-to-learn "toy" tools quickly became mainstream deployment tools?
I don't know, really.
1. We have better tooling around monitoring and troubleshooting, and thus are more bold.
2. We have so many libraries! Our toys often stand on giants' shoulders.
3. We have better dev tools in general. It's hard to screw up when rust compiler yells at you 
Serverless, though it seems pretty well accepted at this point.
Onservarbility.
#NoEstimates.
Test && commit || revert.
LIMBO.
Blockchain ;)
Starting to look for work in October I have seen two phrases with increasing the current one of them is Salesforce which might not actually apply the other is something called service now
What about IoT leaf node frameworks? Lots of JavaScript and niche frameworks in that area, plenty of potential...
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