Compared to Ruby, Python or even Perl 6, I fail to see how anything in JS can be considered a superior option for scripting. Even for simple things like map/fil

Compared to Ruby, Python or even Perl 6, I fail to see how anything in JS can be considered a superior option for scripting. Even for simple things like map/filter, reading a file or parsing script args ES7 scores just average. And I'm not even talking about debugging and error handling.