[pretoriusB]

>People who are good at JS like JS because it makes them special. They can lord their knowledge of the quirks over "lesser" developers who come to JS expecting it to act like a sane language. It took an entire industry about a decade just to learn how to tame it. Sure, JS turned out to be really extensible to new paradigms, but hey, so is the lambda calculus.

All those points are moot. It's like pointing C's many flaws (or PHP's myriads). Or Ruby's. Or Javas. All languages have several syntactic or semantic issues.

It didn't "took the industry a decade to learn Javascript". It took the industry a decade to have:

1) Mostly compatible implementation of JS and the DOM. 2) Powerful enough computers and JS VM so it can be used for fancy stuff. 3) A reason to use it (AJAX and involved web apps).

Nothing of which has anything to do with Javascript's "difficulty" or "quirkiness" as a language.