[hajile]

If you think "The Good Parts" was a bad idea, I can only assume you didn't work on any large (or even small) coding projects before it was popular. It was the wild, wild west where everyone wrote JS without learning the language and abused/misused the worst features it had to offer (actually, that sounds like a lot of devs today. Somethings never change...)

> Crockford wrote his book "The good parts" that tried to write java in javascript.

This is particularly untrue. At that time (look up his talks), he was always vocal about JS prototypal design being bad BECAUSE it tried to be like Java. He pushed for things like `Object.create()` in ES5 (and opposed the ES6 Java-style class syntax) because it is much closer to how JS prototypes actually work.

He also pushed for closures and higher-order functions as the right way to code JS -- something Java wasn't even capable of. He was very much in favor of things like map/filter/reduce which are functional rather than class-oriented.

There's a LOT of stuff you can criticize about Crockford, but "The Good Parts" certainly isn't one of those things.