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Come, JavaScript isn't that bad: it's probably one of the most pleasant of the popular languages; it's just unpolished and has some stupid bits.

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I suspect you just described almost every language ever.

Let me rephrase it then: fundamentally, JavaScript is sound. It's like a nice city with a couple of bad neighborhoods you can usually avoid. Other languages have much more pervasive bad features, and yet others are fundamentally unsound. JavaScript is fine.

Saying that "Javascript is fundamentally sound" is like saying "McDonalds serves fundamentally nutritious food". It's technically true, but ignores completely what people actually mean when they use the phrases like "fundamentally sound".

Let's take the empirical approach:

"Come, BrainFk isn't that bad: it's probably one of the most pleasant of the popular languages; it's just unpolished and has some stupid bits."

Nope, guess not.

Let me rephrase, "almost every language that is close to or has met its peak popularity"

Isn't that bad compared to...the language it was supposedly implemented in? Yes, yes it is that bad.

I'm not saying JavaScript isn't worse than Lisp: I just think that describing it as "enslaving generations of programmers" is a bit much.

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