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JavaScript is my main language since about 5 years, and I love it. I know a lot JavaScript developers and honestly I don't know any that "hate" the language, about 80% are very passionate about it, for rest is just tool to achieve the goals.

JavaScript has minor flaws but in general when understood it's outstanding. However it's not the style that you've been taught in school (OOP) and that's the problem for many newcomers.

It looks that you're just frustrated with something and want whole world to be as well, it won't work. Try CoffeeScript, it's much more approachable when coming from OOP world, then when you get how JavaScript works and understand it makes sense, you'll be ready to program in it directly.




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