That's how I feel. It's an otherwise pretty good language saddled with a bunch of misfeatures that the pointy-haired management wanted. (starting with the nam

That's how I feel. It's an otherwise pretty good language saddled with a bunch of misfeatures that the pointy-haired management wanted. (starting with the name itself) Ignoring this/prototype and just using literals and closures goes a long way in simplifying JS, even if it's not as "performant" (formerly, "fast") at firing off that REST call when the user clicks that button. I'm not in a situation to use something like Node on the server, so I'd rather save my development time than a few nanoseconds of the computer's. (managing load times on web clients seems to be 95% of the bottlenecks for what I'm doing lately)