[jacquesm]

It is very well possible to like working in a language and to have a sincere dislike for its shortcomings. Language shortcomings are those things that repeatedly bite you in the backside or require work-arounds when there would have been alternatives known at the time of language design that would have avoided those particular pitfalls.

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I completely agree with that, there are some things that would be nice to change that are unlikely ever to be changed due to the goal of being backwards compatible. But a lot of the OP's comment was unrelated to the language itself.

> browser incompatibilities are still prevalent

It's true, browser difference are a pain to work with. But what is the alternative, to only support a single browser engine? Note that this has improved a lot in recent years. As long as you don't need to support IE11 or below then you shouldn't come across many issues. You can find browser support using caniuse.com or looking at MDN docs.

> even popular libraries are barely documented and you regularly have to wade through hundreds of wannabe tutorials on Medium/Hackernoon/...

I don't think that incomplete documentation is is exclusive to Javascript by any means. It is quite possible that the standard for packages and articles is lower due to Javascript having a lower entry level. I think we saw a similar thing with PHP.

> one compiler/transpiler, no, there are several...

I personally don't see a problem with this? Usually they have different goals, pros and cons. Do we think that it would be beneficial to not create competing solutions? For example would it be beneficial to only have React and not have Angular, Vue, Svelte? Agreed that multiple solutions can be confusing for new users and generally I would direct new developers to all-in-one solutions so they don't need to deal with these things.

> some things like imports might work in completely different ways

I'm not quite sure what is being referred to here, maybe the difference between commonjs and es imports? I personally haven't encountered any issues but they are completely different. I might be able to point someone in the right direction if they clarify.

Again I understand if you don't like having to deal with these things, but there are reasons for them that can't just be glossed over. Discussions are great! But I find it hard to have them when developers ignore the nuances and insist on approaching them from a negative angle.