Judging from Ikura's web page as well as the lack of Internet presence and name of the interviewee here (Amy G. Dala... Get it, amygdala?), I'm inclined to thin

Judging from Ikura's web page as well as the lack of Internet presence and name of the interviewee here (Amy G. Dala... Get it, amygdala?), I'm inclined to think this interview is fake. In any case, I've noticed a tendency to conflate JavaScript with what I'll call "JavaScript abuse". I'm guilty of JavaScript abuse and I'm sure many of you are as well. But to attribute this to any programming language, regardless of bad parts, is the sort of blame-shifting we should try to avoid as developers. "Never use X" might be a solution to a problem but it won't necessarily guide you to good design patterns. We've all heard the old adage "use the right tool for the job" but its just as important to do a good job with the tools you have. It's possible to write pages that use CSS and JavaScript to enhance your users' experience while also being small and rendering perfectly in Lynx. If you're having so much trouble with JavaScript that you eschew it completely, maybe there was an issue with how you approached the problem rather than with the language itself.