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I think JavaScript could be salvaged if, let's say starting with ES8, the new version would be incompatible and old scripts would require some legacy mode. That would allow fixing the major issues.

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The problem isn't so much with JavaScript as it is with the JavaScript mentality - that is not to say JavaScript doesn't have a ton of problems.

No, the real problem is the mentality of cranking out new frameworks instead of actually building something useful on top of existing ones. Every year, the JS framework of choice changes to something new and you have no choice but to move on because the one you were using until recently has suddenly been dropped as the developers have moved on to the backwards incompatible next version.

And then there is the mentality of writing libraries for the most trivial of tasks - left padding, seriously?

Javascript would benefit from something like boost. Not in a sense of a library because that already exists with lodash and underscore and what not. But in the term of community and acceptance: "Yes, boost is bloated and not always ideal, but it is almost always a better choice than reimplementing the thing"

Personally speaking, I wish this was Meteor.js - If only there was more hoorah for this tough as nails framework.

Then the proposal of the comment you are replying where he wants to start from scratch is great. How I wish Javascript has a great standard library(like Python).

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