I’m not defending js. On the contrary the two languages are similar in that early on a lot of people had a negative first impression because of some mind boggli

I’m not defending js. On the contrary the two languages are similar in that early on a lot of people had a negative first impression because of some mind bogglingly stupid decisions made by the initial implementators. This lead to feedback loops where those that were repulsed by those negative impressions moved on to other languages while those that didn’t care stuck around. In both cases that lead to cowboy cultures developing. It is true that in both cases, eventually top notch engineers got involved in the projects’ core and cleaned things up to the extent possible. But it’s a heck of a lot easier to improve a spec than a culture.