I remember reading javascript for the first time some years ago. It was hate at first sight. Why are there so many ways to write the same thing? Why is this for

I remember reading javascript for the first time some years ago. It was hate at first sight. Why are there so many ways to write the same thing? Why is this forsaken language so horrible to read? Compiler support? Type system? Debugging tools? Someone needs to clean up this mess. As long as javascript is the dominant web client programming language, the browser will continue to be the platform of the future, but never the present.