I think Javascript's ubiquity -- it has an implementation in every browser -- is the cause of much of its hatred. No one hates on SNOBOL because it's been super

I think Javascript's ubiquity -- it has an implementation in every browser -- is the cause of much of its hatred. No one hates on SNOBOL because it's been superseded and no-one uses it; but if you're wanting to interface with the web, there's no other first-class langugage, everything else transpiles to JavaScript. I think an opinionated JavaScript interpreter which considered the worst elements of JavaScript to literally be bugs (e.g. single equals) would help immensely...