[somewhereoutth]

Javascript (for all its warts) does in many ways seem to be converging on a certainly local maximum for ergonomic language design. Perhaps this is because it is used so much in the 'wild west' of browser programming? Where things can move quickly, with polyfill for backwards compatibility (a modern marvel to my eyes, being able to use new language features on old platforms!)

[hot_gril]

Yes, it's an example of not letting perfection get in the way of good. They made something accessible, and the finer details got worked out later.

[hot_gril]

The other thing is, JS was designed with the web use case in mind. If I ever make a language, it'll be for some new use case that really needs one, perhaps some extension of SQL. And it'll prioritize ease of use in that case over "purity" or other principles.