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The flexibility of JS is not how the language is designed, it is the hole that the language is filling.

The fact that using JS you can write a browser based app, a mobile app, backend software, configuration files and flat data files (JSON) without switching gears is the flexibility.

I would also argue that if you really don't like JS, you are using the wrong tool for whatever job you are trying to do.

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That'd be fine, if there was any other tool that worked in a browser. Sure, you can transpile from some other real language, but it's still javascript when you finish up, with all the foibles and warts that haven't been fixed in twenty years.

Unfortunately, instead of going back and fixing core deficiencies in the language standard, it looks like ES6 & 7 are thick cakings of lipstick on the pig.

> "Unfortunately, instead of going back and fixing core deficiencies in the language standard, it looks like ES6 & 7 are thick cakings of lipstick on the pig."

The fix isn't ES6/7, it's WebAssembly:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebAssembly

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