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>and that hot mess of a platform we call JavaScript

I don't get why people are still saying this about JavaScript. Modern Javascript is far from a mess. This is specially strange to hear from guy writing article about Visual Basic. Also using constructs like 'we call', instead of 'I call', is not fair, because I don't think it is general opinion about Javascript.

Sorry for being harsh, but such titles drives me really mad.

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It's definitely opinion (and I certainly don't spare VB from criticism--it draws more fire than JS in my article!). But I am curious in hearing a bit more about your opinion on JS. Because there are so many pain points in it. So much that someone can write a book about "The Good Parts of JS" and its shortness becomes a meme. Now, TypeScript and other refinements address some issues, but JS certainly makes it easy to write some bad code, especially if you're not an experienced coder. The OOP is particularly clunky. Not to hate on JS--it's wildly successful, but would we really have picked it as a favorite language if it wasn't already built into browsers for scripting?

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