Compared to what? PHP is/was far, far worse than JS has ever been, and I remember when you couldn't declare a function in a function (IE3 iirc). There are a few, well defined quirks, and some other behaviors that are arguable, but JS is one of the most expressive languages around, and with the ES2017+ enhancements really nice.
JS is my favorite language, hands down... C# is a close second, and that's as much for the tooling as the language, though the p/invoke and native interfaces are pretty awesome. After that, there's some functional languages I like, and have been looking for a reason to use Rust or Go for something... beyond that, most languages have a lot of their own warts.
JS is my favorite language, hands down... C# is a close second, and that's as much for the tooling as the language, though the p/invoke and native interfaces are pretty awesome. After that, there's some functional languages I like, and have been looking for a reason to use Rust or Go for something... beyond that, most languages have a lot of their own warts.