Originally posted by Bear Bibeault:
Oh, if I could predict things like that I'd be playing the horses or stock market and be sipping a lovely beverage on my yacht.
Indeed. Things like ratings are an incredibly fickle metric, and it's hard to tell. That said, JS definitely has been attracting the interest of many more companies, and as the Software as a Service model continues to move forward, we're definitely going to see more use of JavaScript as a serious language in the Enterprise. We've already started to see it in a big way, but I suspect we've only seen the tip of a very large iceberg.
It's interesting to watch the developments around JS2 (ECMAScript 4), which add support for more traditional classes, interface, and typechecking to the language, as well as notions like packages, modules, and program units. This should help make JS more palatable on the server-side as well, which should help raise JavaScript's general profile.