[lowboy]

It's not just Ruby fans that like CS - it shares a lot of syntax design choices, but I think those should be taken on their own merits and not just "Durr hurrr JS for Ruby devs!!"

That article is good, and I prefer the standard operators (&&,||,!==,===) to their english counterparts. The good news is you can still use them in CS.

The other problems in that article aren't from CS itself, but rather how people write code with it. After a certain point, nested anon callbacks are terrible in JS (fat arrow complaint). Same thing with complex one-liners. You can wreak the same havok with pure JS.