[lhnz]

You are right that there are some problems in the language. However, I would rethink your argument based on the rapid development of the language over the last 5 years.

For example, yes callbacks were very messy but very soon we will have generators. And, yes, the scoping was nasty but soon we will have the 'let' keyword. I cannot remember where I read it, but I do also remember seeing a talk about some proposals to extend "use strict" to allow people to fix some of the type-casting behaviours made infamous by wat, too.

My point isn't that everything is fixed and we can stop complaining about the bad parts. My point is that it is very impressive how those in charge are handling the evolution of the language.

I think it's worth taking a bet on a language which improves so much every year.

[themartorana]

There's momentum, and that's the why. Imagine trying to get Apple, MS, Google, Mozilla, et al to agree on a JavaScript replacement that was rolled out at the same time.

Then deal with the 5-10 years or so legacy browsers hang around with significant market share.

JS was anointed long ago, and if we knew then what we knew now, maybe it wouldn't have been so? I remember DHTML and how silly it was and how it was just a toy and BOOM! Ajax.

So here we are. Every browser supports it, none could agree to change, so we deal with what we got. Better tools are better than nothing.