Everybody's fighting about why JS sucks... We know JS sucks. We've ALWAYS known JS sucks. It's not a good language. It's the new PHP. And it will never be good enough to make us all happy.

But you know what? It works... well enough. It's fast... enough. It's simple enough that mere mortals can use it. (Which is a strength, not a weakness!) And now, it works EVERYWHERE. You can get shit done with JS and having good JS experience means you can always find work. Maybe one day I'll work on a magnum opus requiring a "real" language but for now, I'll stick with what gets the work done. Because I'm not a rocket scientist, I'm more like a computer plumber. And I bet most of us fall into that category.

I don't have to like it. But I do have to get stuff done. So I use JS.