There’s a 300 page book out there on on just initializers in C++. > There are far more ways to write javascript than any of us want. Some of the examples you

There’s a 300 page book out there on on just initializers in C++. > There are far more ways to write javascript than any of us want. Some of the examples you cite are due to JavaScript being minimalist though. For object creation there are a few different syntactic methods but it is straightforward how they compare semantically - they are basically equivalent. C++ has numerous methods to do similar things but they each have their own numerous rules and exceptions. Ironically in C++ there is often only one way to do something a certain way, as a similar syntax for initialization may (not will) do something completely different depending on external context - such as merely putting parens around a set of braces. The diagnostic output of the compilers alone when you misplace a symbol is longer than many JavaScript libraries. > But it’s big enough that almost nobody knows every javascript feature. I don’t think this is true. It just isn’t that big of a language. The examples given certainly don’t paint a picture of immense complexity - a few things have accreted during the years, it’s not outside of simply just learning them in a few weeks. It’s not just about the length of the spec (which is much shorter) but the complexity of those specified features within the system as a whole - JS as a system just isn’t relatively that complex. > the language probably still isn’t as big as C++. For anybody that does modern C++ and JavaScript professionally (as opposed to those that are content continuing to write C++ like it’s CFront) this is a coffee spitting understatement.