[mercer]

While I'm nowhere near a 'fan' of JavaScript, I do feel like defending it by pointing out that there's a difference between the language and the browser issues. The latter are maddening and the former is less bad when you separate the two.

That said, while I personally fell JS is decent with the ES6/ES2015 additions, I do share your worry that it erred on the side of complexity by adding a shit-ton of stuff that maybe should have been more carefully considered. It appears modern JS is and will become the kitchen-sink language, which I suppose is fitting.

But once again, that's still pretty cool. I love how I can introduce someone to programming using JS nowadays and actually be able to teach a whole bunch of different syntactical concepts. I also love how what you can do with JS directly impact the one thing most of us are constantly staring at (web pages). All in all I think things turned out better than I expected as far as the web ecosystem goes. Programming wise. Don't get me started on my worries about the increasingly walled-garden world we appear to live in...