[zelphirkalt]

Do we need to post that JS' weird things link here? Of the basics of JS, few things are sound. The "firm foundation" idea doesn't really work for JS. It might even work better for PHP, and I am saying that as someone, who doesn't want to do PHP ever again.

[com2kid]

JS is very much a minimal language that has a handful of choices. E.g. arrays being objects with field names that are sequentially numbered integers.

The initial equality operator was a mistake, but that was rectified over a decade ago with `===`. Not having a proper int type sucks and holds the language back in a number of ways, but otherwise the language is wonderfully regular.

And anyone who complains about the ecosystem has obviously never tried python, which after a decade of attempts, is now almost on par with JS of a decade ago!

[hnlmorg]

You shouldn’t compare backwards.

Saying “at least x isn’t as bad as y” doesn’t further a discussion, it only acknowledges denial about just how bad the problems are with x.

This is particularly true when we weren’t even discussing y (in our case, Python) in the first place.