Yes, in a survey that returned that 72.6% of the respondants consider themselves "web developers", it turns out that Javascript usage is going strong.
It is the opposite result that would be surprising.
Javascript isn't eating the world, it's just escaping from its multi-decade browser-only shackles and spreading its wings, which means JS is moving into some niches it previously had no access to. From 0, there's nowhere to go but up! If you're a primary-JS developer it may feel like suddenly the world is at your command, compared to where you could take your skills before. But it's not eating the world and it's not going to, because there aren't any niches anymore for it to conquer that aren't already colonized by other quite good competition. JS itself is nothing particularly fancy next to Python or Ruby. And there are a lot of very important niches that are simply unavailable to it.
If Javascript were something other than a fairly standard dynamic scripting language, it might find itself with some new opportunities. But it's not, and while it was locked in the browser, the other dynamic scripting languages pretty much took over everything that a dynamic scripting language can. I'm sure JS will develop parallels to some of that stuff, it already has, but it isn't going to be growing into uncontested space.
It is the opposite result that would be surprising.
Javascript isn't eating the world, it's just escaping from its multi-decade browser-only shackles and spreading its wings, which means JS is moving into some niches it previously had no access to. From 0, there's nowhere to go but up! If you're a primary-JS developer it may feel like suddenly the world is at your command, compared to where you could take your skills before. But it's not eating the world and it's not going to, because there aren't any niches anymore for it to conquer that aren't already colonized by other quite good competition. JS itself is nothing particularly fancy next to Python or Ruby. And there are a lot of very important niches that are simply unavailable to it.
If Javascript were something other than a fairly standard dynamic scripting language, it might find itself with some new opportunities. But it's not, and while it was locked in the browser, the other dynamic scripting languages pretty much took over everything that a dynamic scripting language can. I'm sure JS will develop parallels to some of that stuff, it already has, but it isn't going to be growing into uncontested space.