I started with Javascript the same week it was released in Netscape. Before that I was using Lynx on an Amiga, and I often opined that this internet thing needed a scripting language. Javascript came along and it was amazing, it answered my prayers. As Javascript and browser tech evolved, I grew with it, doing amazing things long before anyone else was, like "AJAX", and "Dynamic HTML", etc.

I'm still coding Javascript every day today. While I know a dozen other languages, I really don't understand the hate that Javascript gets. Other languages suck too, just in different ways. If you know the rules of a language, and you don't do obviously stupid stuff, then you can get a lot done in any language, even Javascript.

It seems like lots of programmers always want perfection in everything, and that's just counterproductive. Javascript isn't perfect, but I can get a lot done with it. I can say the same for a dozen other programming languages.

People need to stop complaining and just build stuff. Javascript is not the thing stopping anyone from building cool stuff, it's their own mental blocks and avoidance of tech they don't fully understand, or their refusal to fully understand it because they think it's somehow inferior.

I don't really need Javascript to change, I don't need it to be like every other bloated language. Keep bloating it and it will end up being something nobody wants to use, including die-hards like me.