The complaints were summarized well by Crockford http://www.crockford.com/javascript/javascript.html http://www.crockford.com/javascript/javascript.html Most o

The complaints were summarized well by Crockford http://www.crockford.com/javascript/javascript.html http://www.crockford.com/javascript/javascript.html Most of the people writing in JavaScript are not programmers. They lack the training and discipline to write good programs. JavaScript has so much expressive power that they are able to do useful things in it, anyway. This has given JavaScript a reputation of being strictly for the amateurs, that it is not suitable for professional programming. This is simply not the case.