JavaScript is a colossal solution to the demands of product, design, business, users and other stakeholders. Crockford was one of the first to effectively sell

JavaScript is a colossal solution to the demands of product, design, business, users and other stakeholders. Crockford was one of the first to effectively sell it to engineers. It has developed into a nice language with modern features and an incredible debugger, and objectively (to the people we serve, whether users or other clients) the browser is a much richer, more capable and reliable platform today as a result. NPM has by its nature and on many individual occasions done lasting damage to the project, the reputation of the language and professionalism of the JavaScript community. There is a lot of frustration over this, as well as the "10,000 frameworks" issues (which seemed overwhelming for a time), these and other experiences justifiably put a lot of people off who decided never to get into JavaScript because it seemed like a shitshow. How much criticism of the web platform today is about its vestigial language features? Very little it seems, compared to 10-20 years ago when the language actually sucked and was considered a joke. It doesn't make sense to stop using it because it's mature and in place, we invested in this thing (as far as the web goes). No, JavaScript's biggest issues are apparently cultural.