Thanks to whoever added the 2001 date to my submission - I'll remember to do that next time.

The history of Javascript is a history of accidents :-)

Javascript is one language that I wish I new better. I can code in Javascript, but I need references handy to help me remember how to do things. I tend to just remember the basics required to write CouchDB view functions and simple web related tasks. However, nice tools like Rails AJAX helpers, couch-potato (generates CouchDB views from Ruby) and other tools pretty much make it possible to not spend too much time dealing with Javascript.

Regardess of technical merit, Javascript is used on a wide scale and its use will I think keep increasing.