Your example shows how the author's conclusions are wrong. IMHO the biggest milestones of Javascript life have been his libraries and the creative uses we have

Your example shows how the author's conclusions are wrong. IMHO the biggest milestones of Javascript life have been his libraries and the creative uses we have seen around them. From XMLHttpRequest to jQuery (and Prototype, Mootools, etc) and now Node.JS there have been highly disruptive innovations over this basically flawed language. Maybe we should give more attention to the basic process behind this, creating libraries aka Programming Motherfucker.