>Wrong. Javascript was designed in a week. The creator admits it's bad. This is universally known by professional programmers, why are people defending this?

That is an opinionated message about a language. I imagine people are taking offense to my opinion, in which case I urge everyone to take a step back and look at the difference between the insulting sarcasm and an extreme opinion. Sometimes circumstance and bias blinds you into taking offense, especially if you're one of those people who only knows javascript.

>Should I not consider myself a professional developer because I don't find JavaScript bad? In fact, there are parts of it I quite like.

This message illustrates exactly what I'm talking about. When did I say any of this? Did I say you're not a professional developer because you don't find javascript bad? No. I said Professional developers find javascript to be really shitty, and it's quite universally known. My mistake, I should have wrote "Many" professional developers, as you seem to mistook it to be "All" professional developers.

Look, there is no denying this fact. A great number of really good developers intensely hate javascript, there's a reason why. I will say this: You are a horrible javascript developer if you do not have the ability to comprehend the bad parts of javascript and why "many" developers find the language so shitty.