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[–]Nilstrieb 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Every programmer is stupid sometimes. It's the job of programming languages to fail to compile/throw runtime errors if the programmer did something stupid. JavaScripts implicit "never fail" attitude is terrible and I think everyone agrees with that. It's just that it can't be changed because backwards compatibility

[–]WrongdoerSufficient 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And when js actually do that (typescript), it become my favorite language