- Add semicolons, if that's what you prefer I do, but others disagree. My point is that when parsing fails, insert a semicolon and try again doesn't look very

- Add semicolons, if that's what you prefer I do, but others disagree. My point is that when parsing fails, insert a semicolon and try again doesn't look very appealing from my personal criteria of language design. - If you needed type checking, use === Which was added to the language after it was realized that the original semantics of == might not have been that well thought out. - Function scope and object system, what's wrong with it? Block scoping provides a finer level of encapsulation than function scope. Do you think `let` was added to the language (JS1.7, ECMA6) just for the heck of it? As for the object system: Instead of using one of the well-known approaches (protoypal with cloning or class-based with inheritance), JS comes with a weird hybrid system inferior to both. Of course JS allows both approaches, but does not provide syntactic support for either, which makes them clumsy to use and open to fragmentation.