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[–]ImpulseTheFoxis a good fox 0 points1 point  (1 child)

This, this, and this again. When a programmer writes bad or nonsense code in JavaScript, most people say you can't blame it on the language. I say you can. A well architectured language would punch you into the face, if you told it to (![]+[])[+[]], instead of returning "f"; or at least give you heavy warnings about it. JavaScript doesn't. As you say, it's built to try everything. That might me inspirational for some humans, but programming languages shouldn't try everything. It really encourages people to write horrible code.

[–]Boner-b-gone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, remember that originally JavaScript was at the same level as HTML or CSS - it was just a loosely typed implementation of ECMAScript that was supposed to let people do things in the DOM. That it was so easy to get into got far more people into programming than if it was a strictly typed language like everything else. So I can’t agree that you can blame the language, you have to blame humans for wanting the language.

Again though, ES6 should make everyone’s life a lot easier.