[nigelg]

This thread is just a big circle jerk of non web-developers hating on web development.

Minimize you dependencies, organize your code into easy-to-fit-in-your-head, single-responsibility modules. Write a simpler solution instead of including another 100kb minified mess.

Someone else said it, but I'll repeat it: systems scale, languages don't. Javascript can be as good a language as any if you use it correctly. People bitch about the footguns but don't take the time to design their systems correctly. Yeah, Javascript fucking sucks when you write 10k lines of incoherent JQuery-soup in a single index.js file that provides all the functionality of your shitty asp.net page from 2001. Well no shit? You can write garbage in any language.

/rant