[falcolas]

Lots of comments here, and on the blog, essentially stating "It's not Javascript, it's that you forgot to [lint|test|format|.+]"

There are tools to make up for these language deficiencies, but our attitude to those bitten by the language deficiencies it's truly unfortunate.

Even Python, everyone's second favorite dead horse for dynamically typed language problems, would throw an error here.

[lostcolony]

Agreed.

"It's not the language's fault; it's your fault for not using all the tools and best practices that make the language tolerable!"

That, to me, sounds like the language has some deficiencies.

[jerf]

These two things are not exclusive. The language can be deficient, and you can be irresponsible not for using well-known, long-established tools for addressing those deficiencies.

Normally I'd toss in a jab about deficiencies in choosing your language, too, but Javascript gets a bit of a free pass here on the browser.

[lostcolony]

Oh, certainly I'm not saying that a developer gets a pass for not using everything at their disposal (especially if it's something the developer had a choice on).

But the implicit requirements in tooling, the fact people are blaming a developer for using the language without also relying on third party tools, tells me a lot about the language's deficiencies. Also a bit about the language's community.