I think people "hate" JavaScript because it's very hard to avoid it. If I don't vibe with, say, Scala, I can simply not use it. There's not a lot of situations

I think people "hate" JavaScript because it's very hard to avoid it. If I don't vibe with, say, Scala, I can simply not use it. There's not a lot of situations where I'm forced to use Scala. JavaScript is different, as it is the only language that can reliably run on modern-day browsers, which gives it a kind of reach that no other language can match. If you want to do anything interesting on the web, you have to deal with JavaScript, even if you don't like the language.