> But since then, there has been strong interest in further bloating the language instead of making it better. So JavaScript, like the other dinosaur languages,

> But since then, there has been strong interest in further bloating the language instead of making it better. So JavaScript, like the other dinosaur languages, has become a barrier to progress. Strange that he says this, because the original "Good Parts" principle is that you can use the "good" subset of the language. No matter how many new features they add, that same "good" subset is still there ready to use due to backward compatibility.