[justinlau]

Most of the JS development that I've seen happen is done by people holding their nose and refusing to properly learn the language's idioms, or by people that wish they could be writing in another language that abuses JS as a glorified bytecode interpreter.

I agree that it's a pretty awful language. I wish it weren't the only choice in web dev (and resent the HTML5 zealots that chafe at any attempt to go beyond it with new languages - LOL, as if HTML5 was a real standard to begin with!) But it's there, that's reality, and the good programmers need to deal with it.

Coffeescript makes it a modicum less terrible, but it's Yet Another Language to learn, and people that are already burdened with maintaining more than just the FE stack, like myself, are getting pretty tired of context-switching between all these languages and mini-frameworks-with-adorable-nonsensical-names.

[hello_moto]

BAM, the best comment from a regular, passionate, and smart developer.

JS developers, understand this: the language is not elegant.