Calling javascript a virus is hyperbole, of course, but it is quite obvious that a lot of people find javascript subjectively objectionable, and there are plent

Calling javascript a virus is hyperbole, of course, but it is quite obvious that a lot of people find javascript subjectively objectionable, and there are plenty of objective problems with the language. Unfortunately reasonable objections are usually shouted down online by javascript fans. Mandatory mention: intercooler.js lets you add ajax to you app w/ very little javascript. I really didn't like javascript and thought that AJAX should work like regular old web requests and, in the process, rediscovered REST/HATEOAS. I really like it. You can use whatever language you'd like on your backend, all the communication is in HTML, as Berners-Lee intended. https://github.com/LeadDyno/intercooler-js https://github.com/LeadDyno/intercooler-js