And the global object nonsense alone is enough to make it suck. Throw in the lack of an integer type, the curious `for each' statement, and the oddities surroun

And the global object nonsense alone is enough to make it suck. Throw in the lack of an integer type, the curious `for each' statement, and the oddities surrounding `this', and it really starts to feel like this is the sort of language that over time is going to cause you a lot of heartache. It makes me sad - seriously, do people not expect better from their tools? The maddening thing is that Javascript could so easily be vastly better, and it wouldn't take all that much. Remove any kind of implicit binding (and this could easily be optional, like Visual BASIC's option strict, or the similar thing in perl) and you'd be about 75% of the way there, in my view. It would take a bit more to convince me that this kind of language is suitable for larger-scale projects - this based on my experience with pretty much any language that isn't statically typed - but this would at least remove one obvious type of error without impinging too much on what people appear to see as their freedoms.