From the inside it's extremely friendly, easy-going and supportive. (Not at all saying this is you) but the JS community also gets a lot of hate from backend de

From the inside it's extremely friendly, easy-going and supportive. (Not at all saying this is you) but the JS community also gets a lot of hate from backend devs looking down their noses at us, making comments probably based on that one time a few years ago they tried to write some frontend JS to fix a widget and had a bad time, while remaining largely ignorant of the state of modern, professional JS development. So yep, you're right, this makes us insecure and defensive sometimes when dealing with outsiders. On the flip side, I can see why developers in other languages may feel a bit defensive too. They see this language that they have a poor opinion of start to eat into everything, including server side, and potentially threaten livelihoods. Its an emotionally charged area. JavaScript: The Good Parts is getting on for a decade old, things have changed so much. With ES2015 and beyond JS is becoming a pretty cute language, it's slowly starting to enable a really nice functional style, try and write a project or two in it sometime, see what you think :)