I really like the format of this article. From my very brief experience with Ada it seemed like a very well designed language to me. It's a shame it didn't get popular enough to compete with C and C++.
http://blogopod.com/image/2014/javascript-comparison-table.p...
The software world could easily go without javascript and be a less toxic, buzzfilled, electron bloated swarm.
The existing ecosystem may have been pretty good, all things considered. Fast ramp-up, with eventual shift into supporting bytecode efficiently so any language can run.
Would you rather be coding around the inconsistencies in the SmallTalk implementations of Microsoft, Google and Mozilla, or just delivering a bytecode package of your code in whatever your favorite SmallTalk implementation (or any other language) is?
BASIC would be better than Javascript.
C would be better than Javascript.
Literally anything else, would have been better than Javascript.
http://archive.oreilly.com/pub/a/javascript/excerpts/javascr...
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
http://www.javascriptgotchas.com/gotchas/common-javascript-e...
https://medium.com/javascript-non-grata/javascript-is-a-dysf...
https://whydoesitsuck.com/why-does-javascript-suck/
https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2015/12/09/javascript-t...
http://blog.thefirehoseproject.com/posts/why-im-angry-at-peo...
Yeah, I don't think so. No matter how bad Javascript is, C would be way worse. Every problem of C ported to the web so all those bad practices that are mostly harmless because they are usually in simple programs with no network access when local program all of a sudden being entirely exposed.