Looking Towards the Future
The current version of javascript has brought us the modern WorldWideWeb and now is used for many purposes.
This is the JavaScript emblem in this day and age, the visual is very simplistic. (Unofficial JavaScript logo, Chris Williams)
The Positive
Positive effects/uses of JavaScript in the modern day, and how JavaScript has made major effects even to this day.
“Our developed application Face Monitor is a critical component of our proposed multi-faceted engagement monitoring platform known as ENGAGE. ” (Masood, Siddiqi, Hassan, Face Monitor: An Arbitrary Approach for Facial Engagement Monitoring in Virtual Classrooms).
"In our work, we developed an application called Face Monitor, which uses facial soft bio-metrics to authenticate the participants arbitrarily, and later to determine the engagement level ,"(Masood, Siddiqi, Hassan, Face Monitor: An Arbitrary Approach for Facial Engagement Monitoring in Virtual Classrooms)."
Very useful especially during the pandemic
Negative Side Effects
Unintended side effects/uses for JavaScript in the modern world show how JavaScript seems to be more powerful than expected.
JavaScript being a new language was very different for many people, and because of this, security measures from and against JavaScript were not very strong.
Because JavaScript is vulnerable, it is easy for hackers to input query strings into forms to access, steal, or destroy your data.
To mitigate these risks, web developers and security professionals take various measures to minimize the potential for security vulnerabilities.
"However, attackers use the dynamics feature of JavaScript language to embed malicious code into web pages for the purpose of drive-by-download, redirection, etc. The traditional method based on static feature detection is difficult to detect the malicious code after obfuscation, and the method based on dynamic analysis has low efficiency." (Computers & Security, Yong Fang, Cheng Huang, Yu Su, Yaoyao Qiu )
This visual shows how wide of a variety JavaScript is used for. (What is JavaScript Used for: 11 App Ideas to Consider Using JavaScript, Alex Valadzko, Anastasiya Talochka)