To be incredibly blunt, and I don’t say this to be rude, your questions and assertions are incredibly ignorant. Linus isn’t talking about JS developers at all. Even a little bit. I promise you, you would not enjoy hearing his unfiltered thoughts on JS developers.
Are you drunk? The guy literally speaks about cross-platform and higher level stuff, let me quote him for you:
This is true even if what you mostly do is something ostensibly cross-platform like just run perl scripts or whatever. Simply because you’ll want to have as similar an environment as possible,