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the fun bit is going through it and realizing that at least part of those "wtf"'s are because people don't understand basic programming.

interesting find. It's a wonder that JS is moving into everything.

Every language has its idiosyncrasies, annoyances, and wtf's. Because they're written by humans who have idiosyncrasies, annoyances, and wtf's.

JS is moving into everything because it's easy to learn, reasonably expressive, and is accessible. It may not be the best but often as not its the "good enough" that seems to rise to the top.

In other words; you're better off accepting it for what it is and doing the best you can with it.

Better off compared to what?

Fighting it, complaining, being miserable. None of which will get you anywhere really. If you hate JS that much it probably makes sense to focus your efforts towards a different kind of development than web.

"If you don't like something, just forget about it and do something else."

I can't wait to teach that to my kids.

No. It's moving into everything because it's well established in browsers. Otherwise nobody would use it.

Thus it being "accessible".

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