JavaScript landscape looks very promising at the moment. Let me show you what I think is exciting.

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Next-gen tooling Next-gen compilers/bundlers came out seemingly out of nowhere. Both esbuild and SWC (Rust) provide a freaking 10x-100x speedup depending on what you're currently using to build your JS and TS files.

JavaScript landscape is exciting again

And also <a href="https://bun.sh/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">https://bun.sh/</a>

yes, indeed!
not to mention the SSR comeback and the “HTML renaissance” (so to speak).
besides Next.js (which the article mentioned), I would add that we’re starting to see more modern JavaScript-based frameworks leverage server-rendered HTML in very interesting ways (for example: Astro, Marko, Qwik, Svelte, and others).
nowadays, JavaScript-based frameworks respect SEO and critical performance metrics like TTI and page size - big difference from the CSR era of JavaScript frameworks.