I had several arguments about JS and I was shocked how many developers consider this platform great. I am not sure why these extremely bad practices are defende

I had several arguments about JS and I was shocked how many developers consider this platform great. I am not sure why these extremely bad practices are defended by devs, what are they getting out of it? I am only hoping we are moving towards more sensible development environment, there are many of them with better best practices and more sane libraries.