In reply to WPezDeveloper.

wat.

It’s confusing (to put it kindly) that the WP Elite believes the 99%’ers are both able and willing to jump waist deep into JS

Already there's a split between people who make plugins and themes, and those who use them. The average user doesn't care about the difference between PHP and JS.

For the developers and themers out there though, I'd argue we could end up improving the situation. Rather than having to learn both PHP and JS (and the differences and similarities between them), you could get away with only learning the one language. This is especially important for tinkerers, who may be starting with modifying a plugin or theme for the first time as a gateway into programming. In addition, frontend only programmers who may only know jQuery can begin doing a huge amount extra.

(in order to prop up the value of Automattic and it’s co-elite.)

I'm really not sure what that's meant to mean, but the project is not a commercial one.