I wish it was something about Javascript itself that made it so wildly popular, based on some inherent property that we as a community recognized, isolated,and

I wish it was something about Javascript itself that made it so wildly popular, based on some inherent property that we as a community recognized, isolated,and grew from but unfortunately like many of us have already stated, it's not, it's a people problem. Does anyone see a correlation between a programming community's activity and the perceived controversy of that community? I hope you do because it's a natural development of a large and growing group of people interacting with one another. You'll see it here on the web with large communities, you'll see it at work on some layer of business, and you'll see it outside of your homes. It's not the Javascipt communities size but the amount of people in this field as a whole. As long as you understand building abstractions is our job and leaky abstractions are our job security, you should understand the motivation. Because of it's ability to not only encourage but demand both in short succession, Javascript being the assembly language of the web is big business, a lucrative ecosystem of those building things and those fixing what's broken in a race against... oh yeah, what are we doing this for again? I can see why industry sold this idea to the general populace, it's economics pure and simple, but the programming community has inadvertently been influenced(bought) by it too. Those ideas are only appropriate for business and barely at that if if you believe in business integrity. This is not appropriate for a community that expects to learn, teach, grow, and influence. We already know what those things that encourage real community and I have this feeling people know where I'm coming from so I hope there's a way we can set things straight again. I've only been programming for a year now lol so I'm still wrapping my head around this all.. I'm starting to see leaky abstractions everywhere :X but the biggest one of all is us.