[awjr]

I find this hard to swallow as somebody that works with JavaScript on a daily basis both as a backend and front-end technology.

For one thing, it's an intellectually interesting space to be in and for another, there is so much of the open source community working in this space, it just simply allows me to stand on the shoulders of giants and deliver.

Checkout http://githut.info/ and, yes npm.

I recognise there are failings in JavaScript and that is why I've switched to TypeScript and now transpile to JavaScript.

Do I think there are problems with JavaScript? Of course there are, but does it make it a bad language? No.