JavaScript is getting simpler in a lot of ways. Things that are confusing to developers of others languages e.g. function scope can be avoided by telling people

JavaScript is getting simpler in a lot of ways. Things that are confusing to developers of others languages e.g. function scope can be avoided by telling people to use let instead. Also a lot of the things I wanted 5-10 years ago that I had to work around are now being included. For example there is a decent-ish http request API. I don't like web assembly. I think it is actually worse in a lot of ways than the huge JS frameworks that people think that it will replace.