In a year or two we are hopefully going to see a whole new Javascript (it's already happening now with ES6). For a language that was cobbled together in about a

In a year or two we are hopefully going to see a whole new Javascript (it's already happening now with ES6). For a language that was cobbled together in about a week, it's actually not the massive train-wreck people make it out to be. Sure it might not do things in a pure code way, but you could argue that about languages like PHP as well and at the end of the day it doesn't make them any less usable. I think Javascript has reached a point where the good developers know of its weaknesses and limitations and thus, they hardly ever encounter them. I can't honestly remember the last time I ran into an issue that was a result of the way Javascript implemented something. In the right hands like anything, Javascript can be a decent language. Combined with something like ESLint and superset like TypeScript, you'll never write bad Javascript again (well it is very unlikely).