I understood that a lot of API inconsistencies come from the underlying C libraries. For me, the biggest annoyance was in that the language itself was inconsis

I understood that a lot of API inconsistencies come from the underlying C libraries. For me, the biggest annoyance was in that the language itself was inconsistent with itself (not talking about libraries), array usage in particular was iirc really weird in terms of the usage functions. From what I understand it's better today and Laravel and other options can make it nice to work with. I was rather partial to Classic ASP with JScript myself... Although the biggest issue in that whole space was a lot of the addons were commercial and expensive COM libraries. VB6 added a lot of value and made it more useful. It was a much different time in the mid-late 90's though. These days, I'm still more inclined to fave JS environments such as Deno or node, that have vast and rich options for everything. Though the language itself still has a lot of detractors, even for TS. I've also been enjoying the bit I've played with Rust.