That's certainly true when writing code, but when you are reading code someone else wrote that flies right out the window. This is hardly a unique problem with

That's certainly true when writing code, but when you are reading code someone else wrote that flies right out the window. This is hardly a unique problem with Javascript, many languages get tagged as "write only" because there is such a large array of available features that you never know which subset someone is going to use. C++ is notorious for this for example.