Having watched the video, read this post, and written serious amounts of non-trivial code in Javascript, PHP, SQL, C, Assembly, Perl, Regex, Java, C++, Python, C#, Ruby, and Scheme...
I don't disagree.
The "melancholy" hit especially hard.
I don't disagree.
The "melancholy" hit especially hard.
Romanticism of Lisp: how awesome it could have been if I were writing this on a modern Lisp machine.
I might choose another language for perf characteristics that JS cannot match, but otherwise Javascript is a truly expressive lang right now.