I think ES6 javascript is actually a decent language. But the way it's used is terrible. Slow transpilers that give all the disadvantages of a compiled language

I think ES6 javascript is actually a decent language. But the way it's used is terrible. Slow transpilers that give all the disadvantages of a compiled language - but with the type safety of a dynamic language. Asynchronous code that is slightly better with promises and async/await, but horrifying to debug with stacktraces that are often completely useless. NPM with its plethora of low-quality packages - yet it's not uncommon for packages to have hundreds of dependencies. And when you try digging into those packages to understand what they do, because there's no documentation, you find a mess of javascript magic. Globals, nested closures, "coroutines" using yield and function references and a dozen magical libraries that are nearly impossible to untangle. I found the development experience to be slow and extraordinarily painful. I actually find PHP easier to work with (but more soul crushing to write.) I would much rather use Go or C# or C++ or Java (well Kotlin, because I don't like to write Java) the development experience is just so, so much smoother.