JavaScript is fine for the job of hooking light-duty events to HTML, but people try to write entire GUI/graphics engines in it. It's the wrong tool for that job

JavaScript is fine for the job of hooking light-duty events to HTML, but people try to write entire GUI/graphics engines in it. It's the wrong tool for that job, just as you don't write an OS in TCL. The whole Web UI "standards" issue needs a big overhaul in my opinion, but Web UI's is probably off topic. (I've ranted about it in other topics.)