JavasScript (and PHP for example) is an ecosystem with low barrier to entry and large popularity, combined with rudimentary and bad platform (historic reasons)

JavasScript (and PHP for example) is an ecosystem with low barrier to entry and large popularity, combined with rudimentary and bad platform (historic reasons) - it's a recipe for piles of shite. The amount of signal to noise is low because of low barrier/high user base community spamming NPM packages/and spamming ratings/stars/dependencies - it's hard to determine what's "safe" to use, and because the environment is so barebones you need to depend on a lot of third party code or reimplement everything yourself. C++/C have a similar legacy burden and barebones platform (although C++ std lib now-days is much better, historically it was unusable which lead to a lot of code duplication) but because the barrier to entry is much higher I'd say an average C++ dev is much more competent than average JS/PHP dev and the libraries commonly used in C++ world are obviously higher quality than JS/PHP (tooling fragmentation is a different story because of the unique problems C/C++ face, but still C++ build tools are probably the most sophisticated out there - out of necessity). Rust falls in to the category of languages designed by competent people without legacy burden and tackles a complex domain (again higher barrier to entry), most languages I've seen in this category have decent tooling and design (eg. C#, F#, Go, Dart)