[beders]

I don't think there's a lot of hate. It's just a quirky language that is at the heart of web application development. Based on its history, it has a lot of compromises. And not good ones.

It could be vastly improved with a proper REPL-based development (i.e. think developing within the browser dev tools, kinda, sorta), but instead we are now going the other way: Adding types and a compiler and making it harder to mis-type things, but also harder to work as productively.

I guess overall it has a few more ways on how you can shoot yourself in the foot compared to cljs ;)