[indymike]

Most of the complaints aren't really about the language syntax or capabilities. Aside missing proper support for integers, modern Javascript is pretty nice. The complaints mostly come from developers being forced to use either Javascript (only way in the browser), or being forced to change code because of breaking changes in libraries.

[hajile]

Library changes aren’t what they used to be. It was once frameworks of the month. At this point, React has been undisputed king for over half a decade. Major libraries like react, moment, lodash, express, etc all have had stable APIs for years now and aren’t any worse that any other language I’ve used.

Complaints like integers come from not studying the language and not keeping up to date.

Asm.js type directives have offered 31-bit integers for years now on all major JITs. That is slowly not working again as wasm takes over, but BigInt has been included for quite a few browser versions now.

[indymike]

> Complaints like integers come from not studying the language and not keeping up to date.

Perhaps, or perhaps fixing one too many bugs where someone thought floats were appropriate for all the things. Regardless, forced change, even if it is a good change, is still forced.