Blaming JavaScript's failure to be maintainable on being dynamically typed is a bit of a red herring in my opinion. Lots of dynamically typed (or, more accurate

Blaming JavaScript's failure to be maintainable on being dynamically typed is a bit of a red herring in my opinion. Lots of dynamically typed (or, more accurately, duck-typed) languages have plenty of facility to make good, maintainable code, and JavaScript does too. The problem is that JavaScript has more warts than good parts, and the warts prove to be too easy a temptation for many average programmers.