[emodendroket]

Why? No matter how great the language itself is it's a small part of what you actually end up needing to spend your time working with.

[talmand]

It's sad because that's judging a language based on external things that don't directly relate to the language itself. It's like blaming tools for the misuse of the tools instead of the people actually misusing the tools.

[emodendroket]

I mean, I'm not holding Brendan Eich personally responsible for the toolchain or anything, but it's not pleasant to work in a language whose ecosystem sucks.

[talmand]

I work in Javascript every day, its ecosystem has very little influence on its usage in my job. I guess it varies from job-to-job.