[peterashford]

That's really very arogant. If people don't like JS, there's something wrong with them emotionally? Jesus wept! I happen to think there's nothing wrong with being annoyed that in the biggest marketplace in modern IT - the Web - we have ONE option for programming solutions. One! As engineers, I don't think it's unreasonable that we should be able to choose the best tool for the job, not the only tool for the job. That doesn't mean that JS is useless (or that I have emotional problems) but that other languages might be better suited to various tasks. That seems to a me a plain and uncontroversial statement that doesn't require positing mental defects to explain people who disagree with you.