I agree. On the whole, I think JS is a middlingly-nice language. It has some good bits and some bad bits. ES6 brings a whole lot more good bits. I sometimes th

I agree. On the whole, I think JS is a middlingly-nice language. It has some good bits and some bad bits. ES6 brings a whole lot more good bits. I sometimes think we could do with a bit more thanking-our-lucky-stars that the language that got entrenched on the web wasn't, say, VBScript (which IE did use to support). For your major drawback, there's TypeScript.