What's so controversial about Javascript? I'm not denying your claims; I just started using it a bit and so far really like it. Then again, I'm coming from Java so maybe I just appreciate not having to use OOP and being able to use functions everywhere.

And isn't Ruby also controversial? At least it seems like people either really like it or don't like it. Everyone I have talked to seems to agree that the only reason Ruby really took off is due to Rails.