Comment by marcosdumay
2 years ago
The JS ecosystem doesn't have any singular bad feature that other languages do not share.
Instead, what it does have is a huge prevalence of those features, and minimal size of a "safe space" where one can have some confidence they will not appear. Both of those are quantitative differences, that people can not summarize in a short comment, and people can easily dismiss with (misguided or dishonest) counterexamples.
So, what you are asking for is a full blown large scale study of several ecosystems. Somebody may do something like that, but not for a comment, and not because you asked.
I ask because I don't believe the JS ecosystem is notably worse than the Python ecosystem or the Java ecosystem and I'm tired of the meme of railing on JS developers when what people are really railing against is developers in general.
All ecosystems that are sufficiently popular have terrible problems. They have different problems, but none is consistently pleasant to work with. Out of all of them, though, JS gets singled out for constant attacks because... reasons.
I just want people to identify what those reasons are so we can have a conversation about them rather than just endlessly repeating the meme.