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What I don’t understand is why people are excited about the new features of JavaScript. The problem with JavaScript has never been that it doesn’t have enough features or syntactic sugar. The problem with JavaScript is that it has a rotten, unsafe core. Its very nature is antithetical to writing robust software, yet we need it to create dynamic UI applications.

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I’m not convinced Javascript boils down to anything worse than other dynamically-typed languages.

Except it has features other langs don’t like async/await and async-everything.

This is why many people including myself use Javascript even on the server. For example, I’d consider Python a downgrade.

I point this out because it seems to be news to you that many people find Javascript pleasant and disdain for its “unsafe core”, whatever that means, extremely oversold.

> What I don’t understand is why people are excited about the new features of JavaScript.

They're excited because new features are useful to lots of people.

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