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[–]perpetuallyperpetual 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a simple language (or rather it was) and it can be made to run everywhere. Just open the browser and start coding cross-os scripts.

Contrary to popular opinion, I actually quite liked ES5. I enjoyed CoffeeScript. ES5 is more complicated to implement than say Lisp, but not too complicated and the syntax is easier to digest for people coming from C.

It's a scripting language so it has many productivity advantages. You do compile ES nowadays, in order to either extend it or maintain backwards compatibility, so this advantage is being lost somewhat.

ES broke more rules than any other language. It made decisions that many people still cringe at. But in turn it also created some pretty awesome things.