Oh I'm sure we can do better. Would it be worth throwing away decades of libraries, many of which have ironed out many subtle logic bugs over time? That's a dif

Oh I'm sure we can do better. Would it be worth throwing away decades of libraries, many of which have ironed out many subtle logic bugs over time? That's a different argument. Not going to say it's not worth it (there is a lot of mess that could be removed if we started from scratch). It's the same argument any junior engineer makes when they start at a company with a legacy codebase. They always want to start from scratch but don't realise the cost or the fact that while they'll avoid 100 mistakes of the past, they'll also make 100 new ones. Why not just make JS better? It's already happening year by year.