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by aflinik 4233 days ago
You're criticizing the raw JS language, but that's not what most people in the industry are using. Fine, the original language design was horrible, but if you consider the typical stack used for web development (which could be any combination of transpilers like CoffeeScript/TypeScript, Flow, Promises, module systems, etc) it's not that bad.

Also we already have Strict mode; I imagine in the future it will get more and more uncompromising, so the JS subset we'll be actually using will be just fine.