Given the proliferation of JS frameworks, I doubt it's going to die out anytime soon. It's also not that much of a pain to use. I'd say it's actually one of the easier languages to learn- and usable in a lot more situations than most other languages.

Well, that's good to know, maybe I'll put learning JavaScript on my list of things to get around to :P

It's one of the more worthwhile things to get around to. JavaScript is one of those sweet languages that lets you make a deliverable very, very quickly. And nice ones too- pretty much half of everything really awesome you see on the Web (really good UI/UX, especially) is happening because of some kickass JS framework like React, Node, Angular, etc.

Yeah, most plugins and APIs seem to interact with JavaScript, I think that's what a lot of people use it for, and that would be what I'm most interested in too.

A lot of companies also want JS developers familiar with some framework or another, so there's that too.

Yeah, I've noticed that too, and like you say, with the amount it's used these days it's not going anywhere...