For years on I kept saying that Java is the worst language ever because of the tons of unnecessary boilerplate and it's "you're doing it my way or you are not doing it" approach. But over the last year I've come to realize that javascript has become much worse. A good engineer and community are identified by their ability to say "OK, you know what, this turned out to be a very stupid idea, let's start over and scrap this". However w3, mozilla, opera and every other organization behind js have turned into a full blown North Korean dictatorship and everyone who suggests that there should be alternative, they get chased down with pitchforks and never heard from again. And even if they have a constructive argument as to why everything that is going on is wrong. I'm sure that sooner or later this will bite back those organizations really REALLY hard. Basically we are in the baby boomer era of js - 30 children, 17 cars, all at least 6 liter v8's, hardly getting across the street without refueling, etc. And I'm betting that in a few years time they will be the web-equivalent of climate change and holocaust deniers.