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Conversely, JS programmers I complain about JS gotchas about contend that "once you learn all those horrible gotchas, it's a great language".

Even C++ programmers, at least the ones that had good fortune to have time away from C++, agree that C++ gotchas are unforgivable.

But in general, C++ and JS communities have the biggest cases of Stockholm Syndrome I've seen.

Disclaimer: I'm a recovering C++ programmer.

For the niches that JS fills, a clear language with few pitfalls would be best.

C++ has a different niche. On top of that, everyone acknowledges the warts of C++, but they're largely necessary for either backward compatibility or performance reasons.

At least C++(11) is a (better) statically typed language :) Although, This isn't even half of it! thanks god the girl didn't know anything about templates.

Templates are a horrid syntax for an okay functional, compile-time language. They can be useful - in quite a few ways an improvement on C macros. I say this as someone who's done quite a bit of C and C++, and am currently working mostly happily in C at work and Haskell on my side project.