JS isn’t really terrible, I’ve done 25 years of c, c++, go, pascal, swift and I found js lack of typing refreshing. I built a fairly complex app in 4000 LOC.

JS isn’t really terrible, I’ve done 25 years of c, c++, go, pascal, swift and I found js lack of typing refreshing. I built a fairly complex app in 4000 LOC. This would surely have been 10x bigger in any of the languages mentioned above. If you use es6, you get rid of the most common js issues (var hoisting, this scoping, etc) At some point 10x less LOC has to be factored in as a significant benefit