[Zababa]

> uh, no. what would be even better if TC39 did something beyond window dressing and JS gets a sane standard API so these idiotic requirements for API fill in are no longer required.

That would remove the most used libraries. You could make babel, express, lodash/underscore, moment and stuff like that core, sure. But then you still have people using lots of libraries, especially in the frontend world for components.

> Other languages have their own issues. But they also have saner stdlibs so the attack vectors are different.

There's also more of a culture of just writing things yourself.