> JavaScript is actually an incredibly flexible and effective language. My problem with people who say such things is that they almost always have been saying

> JavaScript is actually an incredibly flexible and effective language. My problem with people who say such things is that they almost always have been saying the same thing for many years, while the language itself did several 180° turns and backflips. "Classes are stupid, we don't need them!" "Look, we have fake classes in ES6!" "Asynchronous code is awesome!" "Asynchronous code is horrible!" "Prototype mutation is awesome and powerful!" "Everything should be functional and immutable!" If someone considers the current direction of JavaScript good, then they should have considered several previous directions absolutely idiotic. If, however, they are simply oblivious to the incessant flip-flopping of the "mainstream" JavaScript, their opinion about quality of any language is worth very little.