A lot of people are shocked by Javascript behavior, but the truth is, Javascript became successful BECAUSE it's a language that is(or was) incredibly forgiving

A lot of people are shocked by Javascript behavior, but the truth is, Javascript became successful BECAUSE it's a language that is(or was) incredibly forgiving thanks to its very weak typing and syntax and its behavior, trying to do everything in its power not to yield errors, or if an error happens in the browser, not propagate it so that an app that is 10% buggy can still run without blowing up (thanks to the event loop). In my book, that's certainly an achievement. IF I recall things correctly VBscript was stricter than Javascript, thus harder to write for people who didn't know what they were doing.