[morelisp]

I'm starting to think it's a blessing if your first language "dies." Anyone who truly tied their personal/professional identity to K&R C, Pascal, Smalltalk, CLisp, even today ObjC or Perl - will have long since retired in frustration. Distance brings clarity, and as much as I liked (and still like!) some of those languages it's very easy to see the unfortunate parts of them once you are working three, four, ten toolchains after out of necessity - and that brings more understanding how unfortunate your current tools also are.

Unfortunately it seems like JS developers will likely never know this joy.