>[JavaScript's] implementors and community have been quite unwilling to fix these issues [...] You can't really fix things. It would break the web. You can onl

>[JavaScript's] implementors and community have been quite unwilling to fix these issues [...] You can't really fix things. It would break the web. You can only add stuff on top. >JavaScript's scoping and variable hoisting are unnecessarily broken [...] It will get a bit better with ES6's `let` keyword. Annoyingly, that keyword was introduced with Firefox 2.0 (October 24, 2006) but you still can't use it. Even Node.js needs a switch.