> JavaScript is spectacular and has reshaped our world for the better.
It made popular language design even worse. It also can't be implemented efficiently or quickly, and on its own more than likely contributes to a sizeable portion of world carbon emissions.
> but he pioneered this movement.
What movement? The "worse languages than R6RS" movement? That's been going on for a long time; he didn't start it, he'll be long-gone before it's finished.
> This deserves respect.
There are plenty of people who have made programming languages. Few people have created as bad a language as Javascript. It deserves no respect.
> when has there ever been something awesome that simply was always awesome without bumps along the way?
CHIP-8. Plan 9. Inferno. Anything that Chuck Moore touched for the first forty years of his career. Gopher, up until the organization that owned Gopher decided to make it proprietary. Most of the things Alan Kay has released. VAX.
> during Brendan Eich's tenure, I assure you we all loved it.
You're speaking collectively but your perspective is flawed and easy to prove as wrong. I didn't, for example. Nor did anyone who actually cared about freedom: Mozilla allowing DRM into Web standards permanently was incredibly close if not during Eich's tenure, and Mozilla had already been doing most of everything wrong before that.
> I salute the little guy taking on the big guy.
The little guy is Ekioh. Not someone repackaging Chromium with a few half-working extensions and a new UI.