It's not becoming obsolete. Because of legacy code, docs and the fact the old behavior is still valid JS, beginners are still completely lost because of this ba

It's not becoming obsolete. Because of legacy code, docs and the fact the old behavior is still valid JS, beginners are still completely lost because of this bad design that never been fixed, only compensated by adding things. Now add the fact that: - the ecosystem is exploding like a holy grenade, only not as funny - having to learn what "rebinding this in the closure's callback" is still core to the path to the language understanding. - you have so many ways to do things, especially asynchronously, and yet no simple way to do simple stuff like removing an item from an array - pre-processors are used everywhere and you have so many of them - safari is becoming the new IE6 We are still very much paying the price of the terrible language that is Javascript.