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Frankly, modern JS is roughly at the same level as PHP as far as language is concerned. What is messy is the variety of frameworks and the quality of some of them. The well-known PHP frameworks are by definition mature and stable. I can't say the same about JS frameworks though. The point is you create code using frameworks, not just the language itself.

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It is not at the same level, you need a bignum library to make JS do even correct math, which is something a programming language should be able to do on its own. JS shouldn't be called a programming language but a scripting anomaly.

This passes for closures in PHP:

    function ($arg) use ($capturedVariable) {
        return 1;
    }

I rest my case.

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