The wat talk is really funny, but it proves only that if you do moronic things, you will get nonsense results. Truly shocking.
> cobbled together in a few weeks by some poor fellow
It was. And then all work has stopped on it, right?
> cobbled together in a few weeks by some poor fellow
It was. And then all work has stopped on it, right?
Prototypical inheritance is actually not a bad choice.
The event loop also stood the stand the test of time, it's a great choice for IO heavy environments like the web is.
The weak type system made it possible to bang out code really quickly without much thought thus making it very beginner friendly. Most of its issues can be traced back to this.