I agree - I think it's time to reboot the matrix (Score 1)

I agree with the post. Javascript is a difficult language, but makes it a horrible one is not just the language but how its used. It was not designed to be used in web application of the scale which is demanded nowadays, an as any technology/library/architecture which is used beyond what it was designed for, it sucks. It's just broken this way - the way of web applications.

Many people say it's not broken, people just don't know how to use it. For some, the complexity of the language is not a problem. Similarly, for some the complexity of C++ is a walk in a park, but most agree that not dealing with pointers is progress.

Ask yourself - if there are no problems in Javascript, why there are dozens of frameworks which look the same - for example, the frameworks which create classes, libraries, and other basic elements of the typical programmers toolbox. The reason for that is that Javascript lacks these things - and also lacks the ability to progress - build more complex things on top of simpler ones. It's designed to be used for writing simple things - like an event handler. And you can see how it is not suitable for other things - by the fact that most of libraries reinvent the same again and again, and there is not much reuse among them. Javascript lacks the basics of modularity.

If there was nothing wrong with language, why there are GWT, Typescript, Dart? The first and the main reason for coming up with these is to compensate the ugliness of Javascript (and the rest of Web technologies).

It's being discussed before - you can only patch something for so many times until you hit the limits. Either through code decay (for example, due to backwards compatibility) or mere requirement to patch within the limits - you cannot achieve the same as you would achieve by recreating something from scratch. I don't think Javascript-next is the answer because of this reason, so I also think we need a new set of technologies.

And I'd like to emphasize that Javascript as language is alright - has pros and cons. Javascript for Web is horrible. An example is Javascript in Node.js, where it is complimented by good modularity and platform integration. And the existence of Node.js only confirms that I stated - it highlights the problems of Javascript on the web.

On the web , it's also worsened by the HTML (try creating a sizable Java/Swing application with just one class where you are only allowed to use basic elements - text and rectangles - that's analog of DOM and HTML, a technology misused for almost 20 years without modularity and assembler like instructions), and CSS (if there are no problems in CSS - why SASS/LESS? CSS needs modularity and decent tools no less than other technologies).

So I frankly believe it's time to reboot the matrix - why people are so afraid of new in the web, while they witness so much great invention elsewhere? And I smell conspiracy.