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JS is very cool because of how readily available it is and the awesome ecosystem that has grown around it. That said - you don't have to be a CS professor to see that the language (especially in early incarnations) wasn't well designed, to put it nicely. A.H. knows this just like anyone with the skills to design languages and compilers.

If you've ever worked with a strongly typed language you can't but belittle JavaScript ;)

I worked with C++, Java and Scala, and all felt really unwieldy.

You may be traumatised if you ever hear Crockford talk about JavaScript!

Haha, I met him on a JS conf once. There was one of those old "JavaScript has no types and is no real language" guys and he kicked his ass.

Basically he said static typing could be good and there were languages like Scala out there with real good type systems, but most of the "pro static types"-fanboys are using crap like Java or C++.

You're not your programming language. When people are expressing distaste about a language, it's (usually) not an attack towards its users.

Yes, but talking about "toy languages" when literally millions of people on the world make a living out of this is just mean :(