I didn't blame its standard library on imperative languages; I blamed its use of mutable data structures on that. I think the main reason it has a crappy minima

I didn't blame its standard library on imperative languages; I blamed its use of mutable data structures on that. I think the main reason it has a crappy minimal standard library is because for most of its lifetime it wasn't used for anything resembling "real programming." JS is a terrible language in many ways; don't get me wrong on that. However, I don't think it's any worse specifically at functional programming than any of the other mainstream dynamic languages (python, ruby, PHP, perl, etc), most or all of which are also founded on mutable data structures, lack of TCO, etc.