[happytoexplain]

Where does he make fun of JS devs? Call them idiots? Morons? You're overreacting in a big way. Almost everything he points out is a totally legitimate criticism of the language, not the people who use it, and he does so in a good-natured way. Everybody knows we don't just pick the language we think is "best". Far from it. And on a side note, appealing to how widespread it is seems obviously faulty - I think you probably know how little relationship there often is between usage and quality due to the nature of the software ecosystem.

[ergothus]

I'm well aware that popularity does not equate to quality, but at the same time surviving every effort to replace it denotes SOMETHING, that critics routinely fail to address.

My comment was not to the article directly, but rather to the above poster who seemed so joyous at a "takedown". That's the attitude that is so tiresome. Good-natured pointing out of idiosyncrasies like the "wat" video ARE funny, but people that use them to look down on others aren't. Perhaps I'm oversensitive, but that could be to having my profession belittle me for the past several years...