First-class functions are the star feature of JS. It's what makes it a great language for making UIs (like on the web) and single-threaded web servers (like wit

First-class functions are the star feature of JS. It's what makes it a great language for making UIs (like on the web) and single-threaded web servers (like with Node). If you don't like the language, that's fine. There's no shortage of languages out there.