It's not a horrible monster, it's just what happens when you have a brilliant programmer working on an ambitious project, but an early draft version's bugs get

It's not a horrible monster, it's just what happens when you have a brilliant programmer working on an ambitious project, but an early draft version's bugs get frozen as part of a de-facto standard. It could have been a really good language if it had a lot more time to develop. While _Javascript: The Good Parts_ is good, it's hardly a ringing endorsement. Lua is a very similar language, but had over a decade longer to develop, with a smaller circle of active users. It's fixed many of Javascript's design flaws.