I like JS. I use JS daily. JS is part of the workflow for nearly everyone I know who works with code. For me, ES6 is fantastic to use. Some of the better books on JS [I'm thinking specifically of Haverbeke's "Eloquent Javascript"] are general computing classics in their own right.

I used to be a snob about JS, due to the fact that in the 90s / early 2000s, it had major shortcomings and produced a lot of slow, crashy web pages. But when I learned modern JS, I realized that it is now a fully mature language equal to any other, and easily used in a huge variety of contexts [thanks in no small part to Node]

While I certainly wouldn't call JS "great", I actually do genuinely like a lot of parts of it. I like the Lispey style of embedding data structures (hashmaps and arrays) directly into the language, and I like that it has somewhat popularized some functional techniques and made them mainstream.

While callbacks aren't a great way of doing continuation-passing, at least we can credit JS with making continuation-passing mainstream.

In combination with the fact that JS actually does work pretty well on both frontend and backend, it is a language I use semi-regularly for prototyping, given its flexibility. Granted, if I decide to make a "real" version of the project, I'll probably do it with a more functional language, but I think JS doesn't suck too bad.

I love it and think it's a great language. It has bad parts, but they are easy to avoid, especially with a modern linter. So there you go. You're wrong. At least one experienced developer who has coded in many languages thinks JavaScript is a great language.

It's certainly been pleasant so far as I've been learning 2d game development!

The non-vocal majority does.

Literally Douglas Crockford made a second career out of believing this.

Literally no one is impressed by your cynicism.

JavaScript may have its quirks, but TypeScript is a great improvement. And with a few tweaks to your package.json, you can code in TS for Node.js!

I do.

I do.

I love ES5. The language has gone downhill though.

I do. I love vanilla JS especially. The way it interacts with the DOM and the way JSON works makes more sense to me than most other languages, and this is coming from a python user and newly lisp user.

Not everyone has the same brain as you. People enjoy things you don't understand.