I have only programmed in Ruby and Java and Javascript (and the first two only a little). ES5 and before js does seem worse than the other languages I've experi

I have only programmed in Ruby and Java and Javascript (and the first two only a little). ES5 and before js does seem worse than the other languages I've experienced, but not by much. And ES6 is sort of a joy to write. Leaving callbacks behind for promises and writing in a largely functional style is very satisfying in js right now.