[sjellis]

"If you use the language as intended, e.g. in the C++ core guidelines, you will se very nice language emerging which enables to write very efficient and elegant code, sometimes doing things that C cannot do, such as expression templates."

JavaScript is also an ongoing effort to extract and evolve a good working language out of a mass of features. It's obviously doable, but not easy, and there are a lot of problems in practice.