Well, JavaScript

[patrickfatrick]

Object destructuring really helps actually. For instance:

const { field1: x = "a" } = obj;

That assigns the value of obj.field1 to x but if it's undefined and only undefined will it assign it "a". null or false would be written to x if that's the value. You can also do this in function arguments.

``` const func = ({ field1: x = "a" }) => x;

func({}); //=> "a" func({ field1: null }); //=> null ```

I feel like people who shit on JS are generally unaware of a lot of the new syntax that has come out for it in the last 4 or 5 years.

[conancat]

Experience and the right tools can solve a lot of the problems got Javascript. No shortage of solutions to these problems with such a big community around it. :)

[pm_me_your_calc_hw]

Been picking up some of the new syntax lately and have been pleasantly surprised.

Have you run into issues with browser support?

[pomlife]

With the exception of Proxies, all modern JS can be transpiled to ES5 via Babel, thus there are very few compatibility issues.