My argument on why it's polarizing is largely historical. Javascript was a hot mess for decades. I stepped away from web design for a while simply because accom

My argument on why it's polarizing is largely historical. Javascript was a hot mess for decades. I stepped away from web design for a while simply because accomplishing anything meaningful in js always felt like a hacky mess to me. At some point, getting anything done required learning new frameworks getting obsoleted within a year or so (jquery?). It's a reputation that's hard to shed. Last year I finally started to dabble in Node. Though I fully understand the criticisms of Node, learning it really did open my eyes on just how far js has advanced. I'm really loving the present state of js callbacks/anonymous functions, leading to elegant solutions that I now miss when going back to Python.