Was about to write the same thing. None of the complaints in the article were about Javascript. It was more about the current habits that have evolved around it

Was about to write the same thing. None of the complaints in the article were about Javascript. It was more about the current habits that have evolved around it. Granted, I think the PHP world has had a good 10 years of dealing with limitless code libraries, it just wasn't as well organized with bower, npm, grunt...etc.