But Java is an actual well designed language. A bit verbose yes. Lacking generics early on, yes. JavaScript however is in a way similar to PHP and I'd say more

But Java is an actual well designed language. A bit verbose yes. Lacking generics early on, yes. JavaScript however is in a way similar to PHP and I'd say more dangerous as, unlike PHP it doesn't have a ugly syntax to warn you. I've been working in the JS ecosystem lately and suddenly crazy knowledge from my life as PHP programmer turns out to be useful: - adding statements above a function or a class? No problem: will be run on loading the file just line in PHP. - == not checking if things are equal? Just use === like in PHP Thst said I'm really impressed with the ecosystem. It is just JavaScript the language that needs to be replaced.