Not the greatest use of English in the world, and not the most sophisticated explanation of the benefits of the language, but none-the-less a fairly good explanation from TrendinTech of why it is useful to learn JavaScript, that closely mirrors the reasons we use it for COMP266. In short, JavaScript is a do-everything, ubiquitous language with sufficient useful features to make it suitable for the majority of programming needs, while being among the easiest and most accessible of languages to learn.