I’m so glad ES4 never happened. Bullet dodged. Nice to see that sometimes, at least, the industry avoids needless suffering.
But I like that JS can be a primarily functional, rather than primarily object oriented, language.
But I like that JS can be a primarily functional, rather than primarily object oriented, language.
You're so glad now most shops use Microsoft Typescript when there could have been an open standard and implementation in all browsers 13 years ago? Because JS still ended up having classes, and no, they are not "just functions" since you need to call them with the new operator or it yields an error. Ultimately we've got the worst of both worlds, with Microsoft typical EEE cherry on the top.
I'm not glad we wasted all these years because of petty political infightings at ECMA.