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"No language is perfect" is the perfect reply to asking about the drawbacks. The ability to get things done in a language is what allows someone to deliver VALUE to a client (or for their own projects). A workable solution now trumps a perfect solution that will take too long to implement.

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JavaScript is a pretty bad language in my opinion, but does have the universal deployment problem solved a lot better than any other.

JavaScript is the perfect example of give hackers a bit and they'll take a damned terabyte.

JavaScript is like Buckley's cold medicine - It's awful, but it works.

Unrelated to this comment, based on your earlier comment - check this out:

http://www.classicshell.net/

This transforms the start menu on Windows into any version of it you like.

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