Please don't post shallow/snarky one-liners as first comments to HN threads. Threads are super sensitive to initial conditions, so a blank thread is like a fragile ecosystem, and a comment like this is something of an oil spill.

Except JavaScript is a wild success and basically all of its initial defects were eventually addressed in a backwards compatible way?

It’s not like Microsoft’s culture was any better. There are stories of engineers sleeping under their desks during the browser wars. It’s a testament to JS that most don’t even remember Microsoft’s answer to it (Hint: it starts with a ‘J’ and ends in “script”)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/JScript