>I switched from Ruby (after ~8 years) to JavaScript at the beginning of this year, and Ruby is a dream in comparison JavaScript is a beautiful platform and an

>I switched from Ruby (after ~8 years) to JavaScript at the beginning of this year, and Ruby is a dream in comparison JavaScript is a beautiful platform and an atrocious language. I do not understand how anybody can tolerate it if they are coming from any other sanely designed language. Transpilation is what makes JavaScript tolerable. Did I ever mention I love Dart? Because I love Dart. >With JavaScript, once you move past the basic TodoMVC examples you are pretty much on your own Yes! Those TodoMVC examples are great! Now write 100,000 lines of code and tell me you don't want to tear your hair out. >I think there are now 7 different ways of just defining a module. Thank you! I don't know what the hell is wrong with the community. There is no correct language enforced module system, so everyone rolls their own. It's a mess and nobody seems to care ... probably because if you'e doing that kind of development you simply transpile from a sane language and you side-step JavaScript ugliness. >The stdlib of Ruby is pretty sensible. JavaScript has many inconsistencies Yeah. Best not to dwell on it. It is the way it is because of legacy reasons. >The JavaScript community seems to have the opposite of NIH syndrome I would say that the JavaScript community is paradoxically suffering from NIH _and_ IH. You roll a lot things in-house and you also add dependencies on 'modules' with single-use functions. The community is really strange. I think its quirkiness is due to being dominated by young kids who have no experience with anything other than JavaScript, so they don't know what they don't know and they don't demand better. The rest of the people simply side-step JavaScript and use TypeScript (or Dart a criminally underrated language).