The author means the title in a specific way that they explain in the article, so it's somewhat disappointing to see the comments taking it as either just C-bas

The author means the title in a specific way that they explain in the article, so it's somewhat disappointing to see the comments taking it as either just C-bashing or saying "JS is good for some things" as if the article said it isn't. Some people here might remember the mental shift from programming in old school BASIC to doing it in C or another procedural language; having functions as a tool gives you certain guarantees and allows you to program on a different mental landscape. The author is talking about a similar mental shift here, and saying that JS and C are similar to him in that they require him to program in the older landscape. This kind of thing is something we as programmers experience often in many levels, and something we should be able to empathise with - whether we agree or vehemently disagree with it, we can at least start by understand the sense in which the author is writing the article.