> as I mature as a programmer I continually see JavaScript as a pretty awful language for real programming

Not sure what the author means by "real programming". Is this opposed to "fake programming"?

The more I mature as a programmer, the more I appreciate JavaScript's flexibility & readability. This allows for some useful idioms to manage complexity on large & intricate codebases. I like these dynamic idiomatic architectures as they tend to be flexible, evolvable, & under complete control of the programmer.

A module system (like commonjs) helps as well.

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