“JavaScript is also weird because it is imperative, forcing the programmer to describe the means in which to achieve the desired result, instead of declarativel

“JavaScript is also weird because it is imperative, forcing the programmer to describe the means in which to achieve the desired result, instead of declaratively describing the desired result itself, like in HTML and CSS.” It actually has First Class Functions that enables declarative programming, there’s a lot of cool libraries out there(ramda as an example) that let you express your apps in declarative way. Not saying that is a Pure functional language nor that was born as a functional language, it is indeed a general purpose language enabling more styles of programming with a plenty of good and bad ideas. However it gets better as it is continuosly improved by a lot of smart guys. Btw as I can see it, the main point or your article is not about javascript but about browser APIs