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I don't hate javascript for its quirks or implementation details, I hate what it has done to the experience of browsing the web, and now what it is doing to desktop software.

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You don't think a blinking cursor should use half your processing power, and a handful of small text files shouldn't use all of your RAM? Pfft.

That was actually a css bug in chrome.

And why should a css bug in chrome affect my text editor?

This is your text editor on meme tech stacks.

Some of my hate has been lessened after looking at microsoft's own benchmarks. NodeJS performs much faster than ASP.NET 4.6 + IIS. Core improves on this, but the point is after all these years writing .net applications I knew they weren't native performance but they were good enough. I didn't know javascript was just as good or even better in some areas.

Now, implementing the entire browser rendering stack just so the dev can use css and html to develop the UI, that's a different issue, but not really a javascript issue.

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