[hutzlibu]

You are of course free to dislike anything.

But you said "hate" before, which is a bit stronger than not liking.

The only time I came close to hating a language, was when I was forced to overtake someones half assed php project.

And I still do not like the syntax and have never touched any php code ever since, but I still do not hate the language, or its designers or users. I just avoided it. But hate has the vibe of wanting to destroy something ..

And well, yes, a nice clean start of the web would not be such a bad thing - if there would be some language or plattform everyone can agree on. Which is likely not happen and will just recreate the mess we have already.

[brigandish]

There are degrees of hate. If we're talking about programming languages, then I hate JS, while there are languages I love. Who likes the experience of writing in Bash, for instance? It's ugly, limited, and has a series of gotchas, which is much like JS.

> hate has the vibe of wanting to destroy something

You may be right, and given half a chance…