JS, and the web platform in general, is solving problems that are hard in nature. Considering the constraints imposed by these problems, quite a few features of

JS, and the web platform in general, is solving problems that are hard in nature. Considering the constraints imposed by these problems, quite a few features of JS are superior to many other languages. Consider the wide range of devices that a JS code must support. There is some pain in supporting all of them, but compared with Android development, the transpilers and shims available in JS seems like magic. Cross platform programming is hard, and JS seems wierd because any JS code must consider it, while many C programmers never need to think about it. Taking cross-platform into account, I prefer copying some shims from MDN to using IFDEF WIN32's. Or consider GUI development. The nice API for working with DOM, lots of available UI components, and specially the asynchronous programming model made possible by Promises is really nice by GUI-programming standards. Also the good parts/bad parts mindset belongs to the past. I can't remember the last time I even thought of using == vs ===, prototype hacks or similar "bad" parts. The usual post about strange behavior of ">=null" on HN is just amuzing, not problematic for my JS coding experience. As said in other comments, maybe everybody should just stick to using their prefered JS framework and master it.