[Sohcahtoa82]

> but in practice it was doomed to fail from the moment a single bracket off made entire sites to stop working.

Maybe the solution was to not publish sites that are a bracket off.

I think half the problems with JavaScript are because of its weak typing. 1 + {} should be a type error.

[zerocount]

No, half the problems with JavaScript are because people refuse to learn it. Just don't write 1+{}. Every time people start bashing JavaScript, it's with these odd-ball examples that they make up.

[tadfisher]

And this is how add_two_numbers becomes embedded in the node_modules of 73,000 projects on GitHub.

It's okay if JS has warts, but denying they exist doesn't help anyone.

[Akronymus]

If JS just had stuck to LISP like syntax it'd be quite a bit more usable IMO.