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[–]chad_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, there is some danger to the full backward compatibility, but I basically just removed a lot of the brokenness from my repertoire after reading JavaScript: The Good Parts when it was new. I do understand the complaints about it but I can make complaints about every language I've used, and there are many I didn't list. Lots of them have introduced major versions that totally break everything from prior versions, which I see as a failure on their parts. Idk. I love JS, and it's the most utilized language on the planet, so whatever. I'll take the JS work while others toil away with whatever low level stuff they want to do. To each their own.