You'd be surprised how many people I've met that enjoy JavaScript. Nearly everyone I've met that hates JavaScript either didn't bother to learn it ("It's just a

You'd be surprised how many people I've met that enjoy JavaScript. Nearly everyone I've met that hates JavaScript either didn't bother to learn it ("It's just a scripting language") or is just upset that they can't use their favourite programming language all the time (this is how we ended up with CoffeeScript, Sass and Haml and why everything in the Java world is eventually wrapped in XML). I've seen enough different use cases and teams and programming languages to understand there's no point in being arrogant about language choice: if a team already knows a given language, it is most likely the right tool for the task, unless the benefits of replacing it are worth the overhead of properly switching to and gaining competence in another language.