> JS has plenty of faults, but one thing it's never lacked is convenience. Conversely, C++ has many virtues, but one thing it's never had is ease of use. That

> JS has plenty of faults, but one thing it's never lacked is convenience. Conversely, C++ has many virtues, but one thing it's never had is ease of use. That is a weird thing to say. Maybe it is just me, but when I use JavaScript, I cannot stop worrying about the possibility that there is yet another corner case I have not contemplated. Admittely, C++ is full of corner cases too; but, in my experience, it can be coerced into being a more or less civilized language by making a list of strictly verboten constructs, including, but not limited to, void pointers, manual resource ownership management and casts other than static_cast. When you leave these out, you actually have a smaller language that is easier to reason about. With JavaScript, no list of bad constructs can do - you need to actively rely on the semantically crazy stuff to do anything useful.