Coming into web development fairly recently (after 2013 or so) from the statically typed hemisphere and without closely following the Javascript history from th

Coming into web development fairly recently (after 2013 or so) from the statically typed hemisphere and without closely following the Javascript history from the start I naturally cannot agree ;) (things like the scoping rules for 'var' is just bizarre, same with the concept of 'prototypes') Looking at typical "old-school" Javascript code gives me the creeps the same way as looking at K&R C code ;)