Yup, any language I've worked with, including Java and C, can do that just fine. They just spread the verbosity differently. Organizing large projects is a pain

Yup, any language I've worked with, including Java and C, can do that just fine. They just spread the verbosity differently. Organizing large projects is a pain in JavaScript, trivial in Java. Using anonymous functions is a pain in Java, trivial in JavaScript. (Not so) fun fact: The public MapReduce services by Google and Amazon do not (directly) support JavaScript.