If I could down-vote this lazy, drive-by, language bashing I would. Back up 'so messed up' or keep comments like this to yourself, they don't help the discussion.
I really don't think it's fair to say it's a terrible language. It does have some terrible, horrible parts. But it also has some wonderful, awe-inspiring, mind-blowing parts. It's just not a MOR language - you have extreme lows and awesome highs.
I would say that Javascript is not too bad a language because it has those nice parts. But overall, it's still a language that feels weird given all the bad parts.
I still don't get around how `this` can be so broken.
closures, prototypical inheritance, the syntax for object/array literals. and I know it's not strictly part of the language, and it's deeply unfashionable to say so, but I'm quite a fan of the DOM, too.
Closures and literals are pretty basic things for many languages and very well-known.
Prototypical inheritance may have gotten much more exposure via JS, but I'm not overly impressed with it, and I hardly think it makes up for the rest of the language.
LOL! Obviously I struck a nerve. I thought it was obvious to everyone the problems of Javascript as a language. For laziness, how about weak typing and defining a class using a function. Plenty more examples, but you can do your own research if you are curious. BTW I like and use Javascript, but it is still a crap language.
