I think javascript's main "problem" is the combination of duck typing with prototypal inheritance. People coming from a classical strictly typed OO language are

I think javascript's main "problem" is the combination of duck typing with prototypal inheritance. People coming from a classical strictly typed OO language are very put off by that. Ofcourse, my problem is I'm so used to javascript's duck typing that I now feel horribly constrained by a strictly typed environment.